BIGHT-HOUR LAW, an act adopted by the U. S. congress in 1868, and subse quently by the legislatures of a number of the states, providing that in all government employment eight hours shall constitute a day's work. It was expected that this would have an influence on the practice in private employment. However desirable this result, the expectation has as yet been realized in only a small degree, as the labor market seems to develop its own laws in its own time and way.
EIK, in the legal phraseology of Scotland, is an addition made to a document for the purpose of meeting circumstances which have subsequently arisen. Thus, a reversion being a deed granted by a borrower, who reserves to himself the right of redeeming land which he has conveyed in security to the lender (see WA DSET), an E. to a rever sion is a subsequent deed by•the reverser acknowledging, the receipt, of a further sum. and declaring that the property shall not be redeemable until repayment of the midi-.
tional loan. In like manner, an E. to a confirmation or testament is an addition to the inventory made up by an executor at his confirmation, in consequence of additional effects belonging to the deceased having been discovered. Where the executor appears to have fraudulently omitted or undervalued any effects belonging to the deceased, any creditor or person interested may apply to the commissary to be confirmed executor with reference to these additional effects, ad omissa vet male appretiata.
Er%ON a work presumed to have been written by Charles I. during his confinement, but now more correctly imputed to another writer. The following are
the explanations of M. Guizot on the subject, in his History of Oliver Cromwell and the English Commonwealth: " It is to the Eilcon Basilike that Charles I. is principally indebted for the name of the royal martyr. The work is not by him; external testi mony and internal evidence both combine to remove all doubt on the matter. Dr. Gauden, bishop, first of Exeter and afterwards of Worcester, under the reign of Charles II., was its real author; but the manuscript had probably been perused and approved. perhaps even corrected, by Charles himself during his residence in the Isle of Wight. In any case, it was the real expression and true portraiture of his position, character, and mind, as they had been formed by misfortune; it is remarkable for an elevation of thought which is at once natural and strained; a constant mingling of blind royal pride and- sincere Christian humility; heart-impulses struggling against habits of obstinate self-consciousness; true piety in the midst. of misguided conduct; invincible, though somewhat inert devotion to his faith, his honor, and his rank; and as all these senti ments are expressed in monotonous language. which, though often emphatic, is always grave, tranquil, and even unctuous, with serenity and sadness, it is not surprising that such a work should have profoundly affected all royalist hearts, and easily persuaded them that it was the king himself who addressed them."—Vol i. p. 31.