Emphyteusis

In civil law, a long-term lease of land or buildings

Employee

A person who has agreed by contract to perform specified services for another, the employer, in exchange for money

Employment Standards

Minimum employee rights extended for work within the relevant jurisdiction

Enactment

law or statute; a document which is published as an enforceable set of written rules is said to be enacted

Endorsement

The signature or instructions placed on the reverse of a commercial document, for the purpose of assigning the interest therein to another

Entrapment

The inducement, by law enforcement officers or their agents, of another person to commit a crime for the purposes of bringing charges for the commission of that artificially provoked crime

Equity

A branch of English law which developed hundreds of years ago when litigants would go to the King and complain of harsh or inflexible rules of common law which prevented justice from prevailing

Escheat

Where property is returned to the government upon the death of its owner, because there is nobody to inherit the property

Escrow

When the performance of something is pending and a third party holds onto money or a written document until certain conditions are met between the two contracting parties

Estate

1) a term that commonly relates to the total sum of assets controlled by a single person, usually determined for the purposes of a will or inheritance after an individual dies 2) can also refer to someone's ownership or right of a specific property