Embezzlement: Fraudulent appropriation for one’s own use of property lawfully in his/her possession. Embezzlement is often associated with bank employees, public officials or officers of organizations, who may in the course of their lawful activities come into possession of property, such as money, actually owned by others.

EMPJ; Los Angeles County, CA Civil: Equal Employment.

Employment Purposes: Employment purposes, when used in connection with a consumer credit report, means a report used for the purpose of evaluating a consumer for employment, promotion, reassignment, or retention as an employee.

Employment Verification: The process of contacting an applicant’s past employers to confirm dates of employment, title, salary, and eligibility for rehire.

Entrapment: Crimes induced by certain governmental persuasion or trickery. Defendant must prove that if it were not for the actions of the police he would not have committed the crime.

Et Al: Latin abbreviation for “and others”.

Eviction: The physical expulsion of someone from land by the assertion of paramount title through legal proceedings.

Evidence: Any species of proof, or probative matter, legally presented at the trial of an issue, by the act of the parties and through the medium of witnesses, records, documents, exhibits, concrete objects, for the purpose of inducing belief in the minds of the court or jury as to their contention.

Ex Parte: In behalf of or on the application of one party; by or for one party. Ex parte judicial proceedings is one brought for the benefit of one party only, without notice to or challenge by an adverse party. An ex parte judicial proceeding the adverse party and his/her evidence are excluded.

Expungement of Records: A procedure whereby a court orders the annulment and destruction of records of an arrest or other court proceedings. Some jurisdictions provide that an individual arrested and not convicted may apply to the court for an order of expungement and that if such an order is granted the individual may regard the arrest and all subsequent proceedings had as having not occurr4ed in contemplation of law. Court ordered expungement might also be available as a remedy for unlawful arrests. Many states permit an expungement remedy as a means of removing civil disabilities following a period of good behavior after a conviction. Evan an expunged record may be used for sentence enhancement and as a basis for denial of a federal firearms permit.

Extortion: Obtaining another’s property by actual or threatened force, fear or violence.

Extradition: The surrender of an individual accused or convicted of a crime by one state to another.