ESLISORS - The Law Mind Legal Dictionary

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Definition

Eslisors is an archaic variant spelling of ELISORS. The term has no independent legal meaning and functions solely as an alternate orthographic form. See ELISORS for the substantive entry.

Common Confusion

Eslisors should not be confused with ESCROW. The Rapalje & Lawrence source entry, due to an apparent editorial or typesetting error, prints an escrow definition beneath this headword. The two terms are entirely unrelated. Eslisors/elisors concerns the appointment of persons to perform certain jury-selection or sheriff functions; escrow concerns the conditional delivery of a written instrument to a third party.

Why It Matters in Research

The primary research value of this entry is navigational. Historical legal documents, court records, and older printed authorities spell this term inconsistently. A researcher encountering "eslisors" in a historical source should treat it as identical in meaning to "elisors" and search accordingly. Law Mind corpus searches limited to a single spelling will miss parallel material filed or indexed under the variant. When working with manuscript court records or early printed reports, both spellings should be run as search terms.

Note also that Rapalje & Lawrence's entry under this headword contains text that plainly belongs to the entry for ESCROW — a typographical or editorial error in the original source. That misplaced text (describing a writing sealed and delivered to a stranger pending conditions) is not a definition of eslisors or elisors. Researchers relying on Rapalje & Lawrence should be aware of this corruption in the source and not treat that passage as authoritative for either term.

Historical Dictionary Support

All three source dictionaries — Black's (1st Ed.), Rapalje & Lawrence, and Black's (2nd Ed.) — treat this headword as a simple cross-reference to ELISORS, confirming that eslisors carries no distinct doctrinal content. The variant spelling was apparently common enough to warrant its own index entry in historical dictionaries, which itself signals that researchers in earlier periods encountered it with some frequency. The Rapalje & Lawrence entry is anomalous: the escrow definition that appears under this headword is almost certainly a printing error, likely a typesetting displacement from an adjacent entry. No historical authority treats eslisors as a term with meaning separate from elisors.

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Rapalje & Lawrence • 1888

- See ELISORS. A writing sealed and delivered to a stranger (i. e. a person not a party to it), to be beld by him until certain conditions be sea. Cowell. performed, and then to be delivered to take effect as a deed. It is said that, to make the writing an escrow, the word "escrow" must be used in delivering it, but whether this is so at the present day is doubtful. Shep. Touch. 58; Co. Litt. 36a. 34 Id. 92, 103. ESCROW, (defined). 5 Conn. 86, 92, 555, 559; (delivery of a bond in). 4 Cranch (when bond is not). 5 Cranch (U.S.) (U. S.) 219. 351. (delivery of deed in). 57 Ala. 437; 14 Conn. 271; 2 Mass. 447, 452; 8 Id. 230;3 Gr. (N. J.) 155; 2 Johns. (N. Y.) 248; 13 Id. 285; 4 Paige (N. Y.) 1; 6 Wend. (N. Y.) 666; 10 Id. 310; 23 Id. 43; 2 Watts (Pa.) 359; 4 Id. 180; 4 Wheel. Am. C. L. 237; 4 Barn. & Ald. 440; 9 Co. 137a; 1 Dyer 34 b. (when deed is not). 14 Ga. 145, 154; 26 Ν. Υ. 483, 492. (co-obligor may hold a bond as an). 34 Conn. 92. (party to a bond cannot hold it as an). 3 Halst. (N. J.) 25. (promissory note delivered directly to the promisee cannot be). 1 Root (Conn.) 87.