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  • ENJOYMENT
    The exercise of a right; the possession and fruition of a right, privilege, or incorporeal hereditament -Adverse enjoyment. The possession or exercise of an easement, under a claim of right against the owner of the land out of which such easement is derived. 2 Washb. Real Prop. 42; Cox v. More...
  • ENLARGE
    To make larger; to increase ; to extend a time limit; to grant further time. Also to set at liberty one who has been imprisoned or in custody.
  • ENLARGER L'ESTATE
    A species of release which inures by way of enlarging an estate, and consists of a conveyance of the ulterior interest to the particular tenant; as if there be tenant for life or years, remainder to another in fee, and he in remainder releases all his right to the particular More...
  • ENLARGING
    Extending, or making more comprehensive; as an enlarging statute, which is a remedial statute enlarging or extending the common law. 1 Bl. Comm. 86, 87.
  • ENLISTMENT
    The act of one who voluntarily enters the military or naval service of the government contracting to serve in a subordinate capacity. Morrlssey v. Perry, 137 U. S. 157, 11 Sup. Ct. 57, 34 L. Ed. 644; Babbitt v. TJ. S., 16 Ct. CI. 213; Erlchson v. Beach, 40 Conn. More...
  • ENORMIA
    In old practice and pleading. Unlawful or wrongful acts; wrongs. Et alia enormia, and other wrongs. This phrase constantly occurs in the old writs and declarations of trespass.
  • ENORMOUS
    Aggravated. "So enormous a trespass." Vaughan, 115. Written "enormious," in some of the old books. Enormious is where a thing is made without a rule or against law. Brownl. pt 2, p. 19.
  • ENPLEET
    Anciently used for implead. Cowell.
  • ENQUETE, OR ENQUEST
    In canon law. An examination of witnesses, taken down in writing, by or before an authorized judge, for the purpose of gathering testimony to be used on a trial.
  • ENREGISTREMENT
    In French law. Registration. A formality which consists in inscribing on a register, specially kept for the purpose by the government a summary analysis of certain deeds and documents. At the same time that such analysis is inscribed upon the register, the clerk places upon tbe deed a memorandum indicating More...
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