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  • ENFEOFF
    To invest with an estate by feoffment. To make a gift of any corporeal hereditaments to another. See FEOFFMENT.
  • ENFEOFFMENT
    The act of investing with any dignity or possession; also the instrument or deed by which a person is invested with possessions.
  • ENFITEUSIS
    In Spanish law. Emphyteusis, (q. v.) See Mulford v. Le Franc, 26 Cal. 103.
  • ENFORCE
    To put into execution; to cause to take effect; to make effective; as, to enforce a writ, a judgment, or the collection of a debt or fine. Breitenbach v. Bush, 44 Pa. 320, 84 Am. Dec. 442; Emery v. Emery, 9 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 132; People v. Christerson, 59 More...
  • ENFRANCHISE
    To make free; to incorporate a man in a society or body politic.
  • ENFRANCHISEMENT
    The act of making free; giving a franchise or freedom to; Investiture with privileges or capacities of freedom, or municipal or political liberty. Admission to the freedom of a city; admission to political rights, and particularly the right of suffrage. Anciently, the acquisition of freedom by a villein from his More...
  • ENGAGEMENT
    In French law. A contract. The obligation arising from a quasi contract. The terms "obligation" and "engagement" are said to be synonymous, (17 Toulller, no. 1;) but the Code seems specially to apply, the term "engagement" to those obligations which the law imposes on a man without the intervention of More...
  • ENGINE
    This is said to be a word of very general signification; and, when used In an act its meaning must be sought out from the act itself, and the language which surrounds it and also from other acts in pari materia, in which It occurs. Abbott. J., 6 Maule A More...
  • ENGLESHIRE
    A law was made by Canute, for the preservation of his Danes, that when a man was killed, the hundred or town should be liable to be amerced, unless it could be proved that the person killed was an Englishman. This proof was called "Engleshire." 1 Hale, P. C. 447 More...
  • ENGLETERRE
    L. Fr. England.
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