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Lat. In old practice. An escape from prison or custody. Reg. Orig. 312. … [Read more...] about EVASIO

A subtle endeavoring to set aside truth or to escape the punishment of the law. This will not be allowed. If one person says to another that he will not strike him, but will give him a pot of ale to strike first, and, accordingly, the latter strikes, the returning the blow is punishable; and, if the person first striking is killed, it is murder, for no man shall evade the … [Read more...] about EVASION

A species of aggravated waste, by stripping or devastating the land, to the injury of the reversioner, and especially pending a suit for possession. Estrepement, writ of. This was a common law writ of waste, which lay in particular for the reversioner against the tenant for life, in respect of damage or injury to the land committed by the latter. As it was only auxiliary to a … [Read more...] about ESTREPEMENT

And thereupon [or thereof] he prays judgment. A clause at the end of pleadings, praying the judgment of the court in favor of the party pleading. It occurs as early as the time of Bracton, and is literally translated in the modern forms. Bract fol. 57b; Crabb, Eng. Law, 217. … [Read more...] about ET INDE PETIT JUDICIUM

The accepted code of good conduct or generally accepted moral principles of a society. … [Read more...] about ETHICS