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  • EN OWEL MAIN
    L. Fr. In equal hand. The word "oicel" occurs also in the phrase "owelty of partition."
  • EN RECOUVREMENT
    Fr. In French law. An expression employed to denote that an indorsement made in favor of a person does not transfer to him the property in the bill of exchange, but merely constitutes an authority to such person to recover the amount of the bill. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 558.
  • EN ROUTE
    Fr. On the way; in the course of a voyage or journey ; in course of transportation. McLean v. U. S., 17 Ct a. 90.
  • EN VENTRE SA MERE
    L. Fr. In its mother's womb. A term descriptive of an unborn child. For some purposes the law regards an infant en ventre as in being. It may take a legacy; have a guardian; an estate may be limited to its use, etc. 1 Bl. Comm. 130.
  • EN VIE
    L. Fr. In life; alive. Britt c. 50.
  • ENABLING POWER
    When the donor of a power, who is the owner of the estate, confers upon persons not seised of the fee the right of creating interests to take effect out of it which could not be done by the donee of the power unless by such authority, this is called More...
  • ENABLING STATUTE
    The act of 32 Henry VIII. c 28, by which tenants in tail, husbands seised in right of their wives, and others, were empowered to make leases for their lives or for twenty-one years, which they could not do before. 2 Bl. Comm. 319; Co. Litt 44a.. The phrase is More...
  • ENACH
    In Saxon law. The satisfaction for a crime; the recompense for a fault. Skene.
  • ENACT
    To establish by law; to perform or effect; to decree. The usual introductory formula in making laws is, "Be it enacted" In re Senate File, 25 Neb. 864, 41 N. W. 981. -Enacting clause. That part of a statute which declares its enactment and serves to identify it as an More...
  • ENAJENACION
    In Spanish and Mexican law. Alienation; transfer of property. The act by which the property in a thing, by lucrative title, is transferred, as a donation; or by onerous title, as by sale or barter. In a more extended sense, the term comprises also the contracts of emphyteusis, pledge, and More...
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