Easement: The right of the owner of one piece of real estate to use the land of another neighbor for a special purpose.

Ejectment: The legal remedy available to a landowner for recovery of real estate from persons who have no right to be on it.

Eminent domain: The power of the state to appropriate private property for public use.

Enjoin: To require a person by a writ of injunction to perform or to desist from an act, i.e., an injunction.

Equity: The system of law developed by the English Court of Chancery, as distinguished from that developed by the common-law courts.

Escheat: The right of the state to take property when there are no heirs surviving the owner.

Et al.: A Latin phrase meaning "and others."

Et ux.: A Latin phrase meaning "and wife."

Executor: The person named in a will to carry our its terms.

Ex parte: A Latin phrase meaning "on one side only." Usually, it describes a proceeding in which on one side has been heard by the court.