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by the indictment lie had made no election, becanfe that 
was not the profecution of the party, bat of the crown. 
Style, 347- , 
If a bargain and fale be made of lands, which.is inrolled, 
and at the fame time the bargainor levies a fine thereof 
to the bargainee, he hath his election to take by one or 
the other. 4 ilf/i. 72. A wife hath her election which to 
take, of a jointure made after marriage, or her dower, on 
the death of the hulband, and not before. Dyer, 358. 
When a leffor hath election to charge "the leffee, or iiis 
aflignee, for rent ; if he accepts the rent of the aflignee, 
he hath determined his election. 3 24. If a perfon 
hath election to pay or perform one of two things at a 
day, and he do neither of them at that day, his election 
is gone: and where a grant is made of two acres of land, 
the one for life, the other in fee, or in tail, and before 
any election the feoffee makes a feoffment of both ; in this 
cafe the election will be £one, and the feoffor may enter 
upon which he w ill for the forfeiture. 2 Rep. 37. If mo¬ 
ney on a mortgage be to be paid to a man, his heirs, or 
executors, the mortgagor hath election to pay it to either: 
and if in a feoffment it be to pay to the feoffee, his heirs 
or affigns, and he enfeoff another, the feoffor may pay the 
money to the firft or.fecond feoffee, &c. Co. Litt. 210. In 
fome cafes, where one hath caufe of fuit, lie may fue one 
perfon or another at his election ;'for there is an election 
of perfons, as wel -1 as of things. Dyer, 204. A man by 
d.ecd binds himfelf and his heirs to pay money, and dies; 
the obligee may choofe to fue the heir, or the executors, 
although both of them have affets. Popk. 151. One may 
have election, when lie hath recovered a debt, to have, 
his execution by elegit; fieri facias, or capias ad [atisfacien- 
dum ; but where he takes an elegit, and hath no fruit of it, 
he may refort to another writ, though the election be en¬ 
tered on record. Hob. 57. But there is no election againlt 
the king in his grants, &c. 1 Leon. 30. 
Election of a Clerk of Statutes-Merchant. 
A writ that lies for the choice of a clerk afligned to take 
bonds called fiatutes-mcrckant ; and is granted out of the 
chancery, upon fuggeltion that the clerk formerly af¬ 
ligned is gone to dwell at another place, or is under fome 
impediment to attend the duty of his office, or hath not 
lands fufficient to anfwer his tranfgreflions, if he ffiould 
act amifs, &c. 
Election of Ecclesiastical Persons. There is 
to be a free election for the dignities of the church. 9 
Edw. IT.c.,14. And none fliall difturb any perfon from 
making free election, on pain of great forfeiture. If any 
perfons that have a voice in elections, take any reward 
for an election in any church, college, fchool, &c. the 
election (hall be void : and if any of fuch focieties refign 
their places to others for reward, they incur a forfeiture 
of double the fum ; and the party giving it, and the party 
taking it, is incapable of fuch place. 31 Eliz. c.6. 
Election of Members of Parliament. See the 
article Parliament. 
Election of a Verderor of the Forest. A writ 
which lies for the choice of a verderor, where any of the. 
verderors of the foreft are dead, or removed from their 
offices, &c. It is directed to the flierifr; and, as appears 
by the ancient writs of this kind, the verderor is to be 
elected by the freeholders of the coupty, in the fame 
manner as coroners. 
ELECTIONEER'ING, /. Concern in parliamentary 
elections.-—Adieu, fay I, to all electioneering. Soamejenyns. 
ELECTIONS, or Choice, f. in algebra, a calcula¬ 
tion of the feveral different ways of taking any number 
of things propofed, either feparately, or as combined in 
-pairs, in threes, in fours, &c. not as to the order, but 
only as to the number and variety of them. Thus, of the 
things a, b, c, d, e, &c. the elections of 
one thing are (a,) i — x '—1, 
two things are (a,b,ab)T, — 2 2 —1, 
three things are (a, b, c, ab, ac, be, abc) q—z 3 — 1, See. 
and of any number, n , all the elections are z n —1; that is, 
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one lefs than the power of 2 whofe exponent is n , the 
number ot fingle things to be chofen, either feparately or 
■in combination. 
ELEC'TIVE, adj. Regulated or beftowed by election 
or choice. — I will fay politively and refolutely, that it is 
impoffible an elective monarchy ffiould be fo free and ab- 
folute as an hereditary.' Bacon. —Exerting the power of 
choice.—To talk of compelling a man to be good, is a 
contradiction; for where there is forc.e, there can be no 
choice: whereas all moral goodnefs confffteth in the elec¬ 
tive adt of the underffanding will-. Grew. 
ELEC'TIVE ATTRAC'TION. See the article Che¬ 
mistry, vol.iv p.174, &c. 
ELEC'TIVELY, adv. By choice ; with preference of 
one to another.—How or why that ffiould have fuch an 
influence upon the fpirits, as to drive them into thofe 
mufcles ekClivdy, I am not fubtle enough to difeern. Ray. 
ELEC'TOR, f. He that has a vote in the choice of 
any officer: % 
From the new world her filver and her gold 
Came, like a temped, to confound the old ; 
Feeding with thefe the brib’d electors' hopes, 
Alone (he gave us emperors and popes. Waller, 
A prince who has a voice in the election or choice of the 
German emperor.—See the article Germany. 
ELEC'TORAL, adj. Having the dignity of an elector. 
Belonging to an eleCtor, or to the body of eledtors of 
Germany.—The emperor gave the folernn inveftiture of 
the electoral dignity to the plenipotentiary of Erneft Au- 
guttus. Collins .—Of the three colleges of the empire, the 
firft is the electoral. Guthrie. 
ELEC'TORATE, f. The territory of an eledtor. It 
is ufed as well to fignify the dignity of, as the territories 
belonging to, any of the eledtors of Germany ; fuch are 
Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, Sec. 
EI.EC'TRA, one of the Oceanides, wife of Atlas, and 
mother of Dardanus, by Jupiter. Cvid. Fajl. 4.—A daugh¬ 
ter of Agamemnon king of Argos. She firft incited her 
brother Or (tes to revenge his father’s death by alTalli- 
nating hi mother Cj,ytemneftra. Oreftes gave her in mar¬ 
riage to his friend Pylades, and (lie became mother of two 
fons, Strophius and Medon. Her adventures and misfor¬ 
tunes form one of the interelting tragedies of the poet 
Sophocles. Elian. —A fitter of Cadmus. PauJ'.i), c.8.—A 
city and river of Mefienia in Peloponnefus. Pavf. 4, c. 33. 
—One of Helen’s female attendants. Id. 10.'c. 25. 
ELEC'TRAI., adj. for dcClric or elcCtrical, occurs in a 
poem of Shenftone’s, publiffied after his death, but is an 
unneceflary and a misformed word. Mafion's Supplement .—• 
Upon which we have the following remarks in the 
Monthly Magazine: The udjedlives electric, eleClral, and 
elcCtrical, have all been ufed by writers of education : are 
they in purity, as in meaning, equivalent? The termina¬ 
tion ic derives from the Greek 1*05, as ^.cvap^yic, monarch, 
^ova.^^y.oc, monarchic ; v.uf/.oc, fun, x&tjuixo;, comic : the 
termination al derives from the Latin alis, as square, to 
level; aquatis, equal; navis, aftiip; navalis, naval: but 
the termination ical is a hybrid coalefcence of the Greek 
and Latin formative fyllables, a mongrel affix peculiar to 
Englifh language. If then the fpirit of our language does 
not fa'vour the breed of mule words, it would follow, 
that, where the' radical fubftantive or etymon is Greek, 
the inflection of the derived adjeCtive fhouid be in 2c; 
and where the etymon is Latin, in al: but that, to words 
of low and ludicrous fignification, an affix ical, fomewhat 
barbarous and illiterate in its very compofition, would 
beft be adapted : as whimfical, finical, pedantical, fatirical. 
As the old word eleClre, amber, may come from the Greek., 
or from the Latin, the adjectives elcClric or eleClral are 
alike proper. Monthly Mag. vol. xii. p. 300. 
ELEC'TRE, f. [ eleCtrum, Lat.] Amber; which, hav¬ 
ing the quality when warmed by friction of attracting 
bodies, gave to one fpecies of attraction the name of 
electricity , and to the bodies that fo attraCt, the epithet 
eleCtric. 
