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