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Renouncing or resigning one's place. Ejus est interpretari cujus est condere. It is his to interpret whose it is to enact. Tayl. Civil Law, 96. Ejus est nolie, qui potest velie. He who can will, [exercise volition,] has a right to refuse to will, [to withhold consent] Dig. 60, 7, 3. Ejus est periculum cujus est dominium aut commodum. He who has the dominion or advantage has the … [Read more...] about EJURATION

Dependent upon choice; bestowed or passing by election. Also pertaining or relating to elections; conferring the right or power to vote at elections. Elective franchise. The right of voting at public elections; the privilege of qualified voters to cast their ballots for the candidates they favor at elections authorised by law. Parks v. State, 100 Ala. 634, 13 South. 756; People … [Read more...] about ELECTIVE

A name formerly given to a justice of the peace. In the Digests, the word is written "irenarcha." Eisdem modis dissolvitnr obligatio qua nascitur ex contractu, vel quasi, quibna eontrabitnr. An obligation which arises from contract, or quasi contract, is dissolved in the same ways in which it is contracted. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 60, f 19. … [Read more...] about EIRENARCHA

Of the same kind, class, or nature. In statutory construction, the "ejusdem generis rule" is that where general words follow an enumeration of persons or things, by words of a particular and specific meaning, such general words are not to be construed in their widest extent, but are to be held as applying only to persons or things of the same general kind or class as those … [Read more...] about EJUSDEM GENERIS

See statutory share. … [Read more...] about ELECTIVE SHARE