Easement
A legal right to access or use another's land or
waterway
Ecclesiastical Law
Synonymous to canon law
Eggshell Skull Doctrine
A tort-feasor or a wrongdoer takes his victim as
he finds him
Eighth Amendment
US constitutional amendment that prohibits
excessive bail or fines and cruel and unusual punishment
Emancipation
The act of freeing a person who was under the
legal authority of another from that control
Embargo
port, city or territory and may be enforced by
military threat of destroying any vehicle that attempts to break it or by trade
penalties
Embezzle
The illegal transfer of money or property that,
although possessed legally by the embezzler, is diverted to the embezzler
personally by his or her fraudulent action
Embracery
Improper influence on a juror
Eminent Domain
In the United States, the legal power to
expropriate private land for the sake of public necessity
Emolument
A legal word which refers to all wages, benefits
or other benefit received as compensation for holding some office or
employment