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The effectiveness. The likelihood of success as a result of the effort. … [Read more...] about EFFICACY

I; myself. This term is used in forming genealogical tables, to represent the person who is the object of inquiry. … [Read more...] about EGO

The working cause; that cause which produces effects or results; an intervening cause, which produces results which would not have come to pass except for its interposition, and for which, therefore, the person who set in motion the original chain of causes is not responsible. Central Coal & Iron Co. v. Pearce (Ky.) 80 S. W, 450; Pullman Palace Car Co. V. Laack, 143 111. … [Read more...] about EFFICIENT CAUSE

I, such a one. Words used in describing the forms of old deeds. Fleta, lib. 3, c 14, s 5. … [Read more...] about EGO, TALIS

crim. law. The figure or representation of a person. 2. To make the effigy of a person with an intent to make him the object of ridicule, is a libel. 3. In France an execution by effigy or in effigy is adopted in the case of a criminal who has fled from justice. By the public exposure or exhibition of a picture or representation of him on a scaffold, on which his name and the … [Read more...] about EFFIGY