31. Emphyteusis

e="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">In civil law, a long-term lease of land or buildings

32. Emolument

e="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">A legal word which refers to all wages, benefits or other benefit received as compensation for holding some office or employment

33. Eminent Domain

e="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">In the United States, the legal power to expropriate private land for the sake of public necessity

34. Embracery

e="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">Improper influence on a juror

35. Embezzle

e="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">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

36. Embargo

e="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">port, city or territory and may be enforced by military threat of destroying any vehicle that attempts to break it or by trade penalties

37. Emancipation

e="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">The act of freeing a person who was under the legal authority of another from that control

38. Eighth Amendment

e="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">US constitutional amendment that prohibits excessive bail or fines and cruel and unusual punishment

39. Eggshell Skull Doctrine

e="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">A tort-feasor or a wrongdoer takes his victim as he finds him

40. Ecclesiastical Law

e="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">Synonymous to canon law