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others of the Chridian fathers, that Ptolemy Philadel- 
plms, king of Egypt, fent an embaffy to Jerufalem, with 
rich prefents, in order to obtain a copy of the ('acred 
books of the Hebrews, which he placed in the library at 
Alexandria. Eleazar died after he had filled the Ration 
of high-pried about thirty-two years. 
ELECAMPA'NE, /. [hdarium, Lat.] A plant, named 
alfo danvort. See Inula. —The Germans have a method 
of candying elecampane root like ginger, to which they 
prefer it, and call it German fpice. Hill. 
To ELE'CT, v. a. [ckElus , Lat.] To choofe for any 
office or ufe ; to take in preference to others : 
Henry his fon is chofen king, though young; 
And Louis of France, elefted fird, beguil’d. Daniel. 
[In theology.] To feleft as an object of eternal mercy. 
ELE'CT, aclj. Chofen ; taken by preference from 
among others: 
You have here, lady, 
And of your choice, thefe reverend fathers, 
Yea, the elecl of the land, who are alfembled 
To plead your caufe. Shakefpcare. 
Chofen to an office not yet in poffieffion.—The biffiop cleft 
takes the oaths of fupremacy, canonical obedience, and 
againd fimony ; and then the dean of the arches reads and 
fublcribes the fentences. Aylijfe. —[In theology.] Chofen 
as an objeft of eternal mercy : 
Some I have chofen of peculiar grace, 
Elecl above the red : fo is my will. Milton. 
ELEC'TION, /. [ eleftio , Lat.] The aft of choofing; 
the act of felefting one or more from a greater number 
for any ufe or office; choice.—If the eleftion of the nti- 
nider (hould be committed to every feveral parifli, do you 
think that they would choofe the meeteft ? Whitgift. — 
The power of choice : 
For what is man without a moving mind, 
Which hath a judging wit, and chufing will! 
Now if God’s pow’r ffiould her eleftion bind. 
Her motions then would ceafe, and dand all dill. Davies. 
Voluntary preference.—He calls upon the dinners to turn 
themfelves and live; he tells us, that he has let before 
us life and death, and referred it to our own eleftion which 
we will choofe.—Difcernment; diftinftion ; diferimina- 
tion.—In favour, to ufe men with much difference and 
eleftion is good : for it maketh thofe preferred more thank¬ 
ful, and the red more officious. Bacon. —[In theology.] 
The predetermination of God by which any were felefted 
for eternal life.—The conceit about abfolute eleftion to 
eternal life, fotne enthufiads entertaining, have been made 
remifs in the practice of virtue. Atterbury. —The cere¬ 
mony of a public choice.—I was forty to hear with what 
partiality, and popular heat, cleftions were carried in many 
places. King Charles. 
ELEC'TION, f. in law, is when a man is left to his 
own free will, to take or do one thing or another, which 
he pleafes. And if it be given of feveral things, lie who 
is the fird agent, and ought to do tlve-firftaft, (hall have 
the election: as if a perfon make a leafe, rendering rent, 
or a garment, &c. the leffee dtall have the election, as 
being the fird agent, by the payment of the one, or deli¬ 
very of the other. Co. Litt. 144. And if A. covenant to 
pay B. a pound of pepper or fugar, before Eader; it is 
at the eleftion of A. at all times before Eader, which of 
them he will pay : but if he pays it not before the (aid 
lead, then afterwards it is at the eleftion of B. to demand 
and have which he pleafeth. Dyer, 18. 5 Rep. 59. If I 
give to you one of my horfes in my (table, there you fnall 
have the eleftion; for you fliall be the fird agent, by 
taking or feizure of one of them. Co. Litt. 145.- If things 
granted are annual, and to have continuance, the eleftion 
(where the law gives it him) remains to the grantor, as 
well after the day as before : but it is other-wife when to 
be performed at once. When nothing paffes to the feoffee 
Vox. VI. No. 359. 
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or grantee before eleftion to have the one thing or the 
other, the eleftion ought to be made in the life of the 
parties ; and the heir or executor cannot make the elec¬ 
tion : but where an edate or intered paffes immediately 
to the feoffee, donee, &c. there eleftion may be made by 
them, or their heirs or executors. 2 Rep. 36! And when 
one and the fame thing pafleth to the donee or grantee, 
and fuch donee or grantee hath eleftion in what manner 
he will take it, there the intereft paffeth immediately, and 
the party, his heirs, &c. may make eleftion when they 
will. Co. Litt. 145. 
Where the eleftion creates the intereff, nothing paffes 
till eleftion ; and if no election can be made, no intered 
will arife. Hob. 174. If the eleftion is given to feveral 
perfons, there the firff eleftion made by any of the per¬ 
sons (hall dand : as if a man leafes two acres to A. for 
life, remainder of one acre to B. and of the other acre to 
C. now B. or C. may eleft which of the acres lie will 
have, and the fird eleftion by one binds the other. Co. 
J.itt. 145. If a man leafes two acres for life, the remainder 
of one in fee to the fame perfon; and after licenfes the 
leffee to cut trees in one acre, this is an eleftion that he 
(hall have the fee in the other acre. 2 Danv. 762. A real 
eleftion concerning lands is defeendibie ; and eleftion of 
a tenant in tail may prejudice his ilfue. He in remainder 
may make an eleftion, after the deatli of tenant for life ; 
but if the tenant for life do make eleftion, the remainder¬ 
man is concluded. Moor, Ca. 247. 
A perfon grants a manor, except one clofe called N, 
and there are two clofes called by that name, one contain¬ 
ing nine acres, and the other but three acres; the grantee 
dull not in this cafe choofe which of the faid clofes he 
will have, but the grantor (hall have eleftion which clofe 
fliall pafs. 1 Leon. 268. But if one grants an acre of land 
out of a wade or common, and doth not fay in what part, 
or how to be bounded, the grantee may make his eleftion 
where he will. 1 Leon. 30. Where there are three co¬ 
parceners of lands, upon partition the elded fider (hall 
have the eleftion: though if (he herfelf make the parti¬ 
tion, (he lofes it, and (hall take lad of all. Co. Litt. 166. 
A condition of a bond is, that the obligor fliall pay 
thirty pounds, or twenty kine, at the obligee’s eleftion, 
within fuch a time ; the obligee at his peril is to make 
his eleftion within the time limited. 1 Leon. 69. Though 
in debt upon bond to pay ten pounds on fuch a day, or 
four cows, at the then eleftion of the obligee, it was ad¬ 
judged, that it was not enough for the defendant to plead 
that he was always ready, &c. if the obligee had made 
his eleftion ; for he ought to tender both at the day, by 
reafon the word then relates to the day of payment. 1 Nelf. 
694, 695. If a man hath an eleftion to do one of two 
things, and he cannot by any default of a dranger, or of 
himfelf, or the obligee, or by the aft of God, do the one,, 
he mud at his peril do the other. 1 Lil. Abr. 506. 
Where the law allows a man two aftions to recover his 
right, it is at his eleftion to bring which he pleafeth : and 
when a man’s aft may work two ways, both arifing out 
of his intered, he hath eleftion given him to ufe it either 
way. Dyer, 20. Action of trefpafs upon the cafe, or aftion 
of ’trefpafs vi & arm's, may be brought againd one that 
refeues a prifoner, at the eleftion of the party damnified 
by the refcotis. And an aftion on the cafe, or an affile, 
lies againd him that furcharges a common, at the eleftion 
of him that is injured thereby. 1 Lil. 504. Alfo for a 
rent-charge out of lands, there may be a writ of annuity 
or didrefs, at the eleftion of the grantee: but after the 
death of the grantor, if the heir be not charged, the elec¬ 
tion to bring annuity ceafeth. Dyer, 344. 
A man was indifted of felony for entering a houfe and 
taking away monev,> and found guilty, , and burnt in the- 
hand ; after which the perfon who 1 oil the money brought 
;*n aftion of trefpafs againd the other for breaking his 
houfe, and taking away his money ; and it was held that 
the adtion would lie; for though it was at his eleftian at 
firft, either to prefer an indictment or bring an aftion,.yet 
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