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ETHICAL

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Relating to moral principles or a generally accepted moral code of society. … [Read more...]

ESTREPE

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To strip; to despoil; to lay waste; to commit waste upon an estate, as by cutting down trees, removing buildings, etc. To injure the value of a reversionary interest by stripping or spoiling the estate. … [Read more...]

ET HOC PETIT QUOD INQUIRATUR PER PATRIAM

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And this he prays may be inquired of by the country. The conclusion of a plaintiff's pleading, tendering an issue to the country. 1 Salk. 6. Literally translated In the modern forms. … [Read more...]

ETHICAL ISSUE

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An issue that is ethical in nature; see ethics and ethical. … [Read more...]

ESTREPEMENT

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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...]

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