Glossary
Terms starting with E
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- event horizon
- the boundary of a black hole from inside which light cannot escape
- Eviction
- An eviction is a civil action that will be brought by the landlord against his or her tenant in order to recover the property from the tenant's possession. It is very common for eviction to follow a period of non-payment of rent. As in all landlord/tenant…
- Evidence
- A wide area of law, but evidence is basically anything that tends to prove or disprove the matters in issue.
- EVIDENCE OF TITLE
- Proof of ownership of property; commonly a certificate of title, an abstract of title with lawyer's opinion, title insurance or a Torrens registration certificate.
- evolution
- In Darwinian terms a gradual change in phenotypic frequencies in a population that results in individuals with improved reproductive success.
- evolutionary rate
- The rate of divergence between taxonomic groups measurable as amino acid substitutions per million years.
- Ex Parte
- On one's own part is the literal meaning. It is improper to contact the judge to discuss a case without the other side taking part. This is an ex parte communication and the practice should not be engaged in.
- Ex Post Facto
- After the fact is the literal meaning. The constitution prohibits being convicted of crimes where the offense is created after the act occurred.
- Exact Order
- (Also, Straight) Numbers drawn in the same order as played. Exotic Numbers - Unusual or uncommon set of numbers.
- Exacta
- A wager in which the first two finishers in a race must finish first or second.
- EXCEPTIONAL METHOD
- An approved alternative calculation method that analyzes designs, materials, or devices that cannot be adequately modeled using public domain computer programs. Exceptional methods must be submitted to and approved by the California Energy Commission. [See…
- EXCESS AND SURPLUS LINES
- Property/casualty coverage that isn’t available from insurers licensed by the state (called admitted insurers) and must be purchased from a non-admitted carrier.
- EXCESS OF LOSS REINSURANCE
- A contract between an insurer and a reinsurer, whereby the insurer agrees to pay a specified portion of a claim and the reinsurer to pay all or a part of the claim above that amount.
- EXCHANGE
- The entire telephone plant and facilities used in providing telephone service to subscribers located in an exchange area. An exchange may include more than one central office unit.
- EXCHANGE
- A transaction in which all or part of the consideration is the transfer of like-kind property (such as real estate for real estate).
- EXCHANGE (Electric utility)
- Agreements between utilities providing for purchase, sale and trading of power. Usually relates to capacity (kilowatts) but sometimes energy (kilowatt-hours).
- EXCHANGE (SERVICE) AREA
- The territory of a local exchange company (LEC) within which local telephone service is furnished at the exchange rates applicable within that area.
- Exchange Rate
- The exchange rate refers to the rate at which one currency can be traded for another currency on the currency market.
- Exchange Visitor
- A foreign citizen coming to the United States to participate in a particular program in education, training or research. The Department of State approves the programs. The applicant enters the United States on a J visa.
- excision repair
- A process whereby cells remove part of a damaged DNA strand and replace it through DNA synthesis using the undamaged strand as a template. The repair of a DNA lesion by removal of the faulty DNA segment and its replacement with a new segment.
- Excited Utterance
- This is an exception to the hearsay rule, wherein an out of court statement of another may come into evidence if a foundation is laid that the statement was made in response to a sudden and unexpected event, such that it has an certain indicia of reliability.
- EXCLUSION
- A provision in an insurance policy that eliminates coverage for certain risks, people, property classes, or locations.
- Exclusionary Rule
- In criminal cases, evidence improperly obtained is sometimes not allowed in but is excluded.
- EXCLUSIVE AGENT
- A captive agent, or a person who represents only one insurance company and is restricted by agreement from submitting business to any other company unless it is first rejected by the agent’s company. (See Captive agent)
- Exclusive License
- A right granted by the owner to only one person or entity to use a product or an image.
- EXCLUSIVE REMEDY
- Part of the social contract that forms the basis for workers compensation statutes under which employers are responsible for work-related injury and disease, regardless of whether is was the employee’s fault and in return the injured employee gives up the…
- EXCLUSIVE RIGHT-TO-SELL LISTING
- A listing contract under which the owner appoints a real estate broker as his or her exclusive agent for a designated period of time, to sell the property on the owner's stated terms, and agrees to pay the broker a commission when the property is sold…
- EXCLUSIVE-AGENCY LISTING
- A listing contract under which the owner appoints a real estate broker as his or her exclusive agent for a designated period of time to sell the property, on the owner's stated terms, for a commission. The owner reserves the right to sell without paying…
- exconjugant
- Each of the two cells that separates after conjugation has taken place. A female bacterial cell that has just been in conjugation with a male and that contains a fragment of male DNA.
- Exculpatory Clause
- In contract law, this is a disclaimer of sorts, whereby one party purports to exclude liability for his own negligence.
- EXECUTED CONTRACT
- A contract in which all parties have fulfilled their promises and thus performed the contract.
- EXECUTION
- The signing and delivery of an instrument. Also, a legal order directing an official to enforce a judgment against the property of a debtor.
- EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER 6
- A provision under the California Emergency Services Act permits the Governor to establish, by Executive Order Number 6, a state Petroleum Fuels Set-Aside Program after proclamation of an energy emergency.
- Executor
- A person appointed in a will to have control, or to administer an estate.
- EXECUTORY CONTRACT
- A contract under which something remains to be done by one or more of the parties.
- Executrix
- A female person appointed in a will to have control, or to administer an estate.
- Exemplary Damages
- These types of damages are punitive in nature, and are meant to punish and to make an example of the defendant.
- Exempt Property
- In bankruptcy cases, this is the portion of a person's bankruptcy estate that is outside the reach of creditors, by statute.
- EXEMPT WHOLESALE GENERATOR (EWG)
- Created under the 1992 Energy Policy Act, these wholesale generators are exempt from certain financial and legal restrictions stipulated in the Public Utilities Holding Company Act of 1935.
- Exempt Wholesale Generator(EWG)
- Created under the 1992 Energy Policy Act, these wholesale generators are exempt from certain financial and legal restrictions stipulated in the Public Utilities Holding Company Act of 1935.
- EXFILTRATION
- Air flow outward through a wall, building envelope, etc.
- Exfoliate
- To scale off layers of skin.
- EXHAUST
- Air removed deliberately from a space, by a fan or other means, usually to remove contaminants from a location near their source.
- Exigent Circumstances
- Since some situations require immediate or unusual action, and otherwise improper entry or search is excused. For example, where a police officer breaks into a home without a search warrant because of hearing screams inside.
- exit pupil
- the image of the objective lens or primary mirror of a telescope formed on the eye side of the eyepiece
- exobiologists
- a person who studies the origin, development, and distribution of 'living' systems that may exist outside of Earth
- exogenote
- DNA that a bacterial cell has taken up through one of its sexual processes. See merozygote.
- exon
- A region of a gene that is present in the final functional transcript (mRNA) from that gene. Any non-intron section of the coding sequence of a gene; together the exons constitute the mRNA and are translated into protein.
- exon shuffling
- The hypothesis put forward by Walter Gilbert that exons code for functional units of a protein and that evolution of new genes has proceeded by recombination or exclusion of exons.
- Exonerate
- To be excused or freed from suspicion and responsibility.
- exonuclease
- An enzyme that cleaves nucleotides one at a time from an end of a polynucleotide chain. An enzyme that hydrolyzes phosphodiester bonds from either the 3' or 5' terminus of a polynucleotide molecules.
- EXPENSE RATIO
- Percentage of each premium dollar that goes to insurers’ expenses including overhead, marketing, and commissions.
- EXPERIENCE
- Record of losses.
- experimental design
- A branch of statistics that attempts to outline the way in which experiments should be carried out so the data gathered will have statistical value.
- Expert Witness
- An expert witness is a person with particular expertise in a specialized or scientific field, gained by virtue of skill, training and experience, such that the Judge will allow the person to qualify as an expert who then will be allowed to testify in court…
- exploitation competition
- A form of competition that revolves around the superior ability to gather resources rather than an active interaction among organisms for these resources.
- EXPORTS (Electric utility)
- Power capacity or energy that a utility is required by contract to supply outside of its own service area and not covered by general rate schedules.
- exposition
- The first section of a movement in sonata form.
- Exposure
- The result of allowing light to act on photosensitive material. The amount of exposure depends on both the intensity of the light and the amount of time the light is allowed to fall on the sensitive material. The exposure is dependant on the aperture size…
- EXPOSURE
- Possibility of loss.