701. Evidence

1) something which provides proof or disproves a claim or otherwise believed statement 2)to make clear or evident, to show by proof

702. Estoppel

A rule of law that when person A, by act or words, gives person B reason to believe a certain set of facts upon which person B takes action, person A cannot later, to his benefit, deny those facts or say that his earlier act was improper

703. Estate Law

A term used by the law to describe that part of the law which regulates wills, probate and other subjects related to the distribution of a deceased person's estate

704. 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

705. 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

706. Escheat

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

707. 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

708. 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

709. Endorsement

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

710. Enactment

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