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ENROLL
To register; to make a record ; to enter on the rolls of a court; to transcribe. Ream v. Com., 3 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 209. -Enrolled bill. In legislative practice, a bill which has been duly introduced, finally passed by both houses, signed by the proper officers or each, More...

To register; to make a record ; to enter on the rolls of a court; to transcribe. Ream v. Com., 3 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 209. -Enrolled bill. In legislative practice, a bill which has been duly introduced, finally passed by both houses, signed by the proper officers or each, approved by the governor (or president) and filed by the secretary of state. Sedgwick County Com'rs v. Bailey, 13 Kan. 608. Less...
ENROLLMENT
In English law. The registering or entering on the rolls of chancery, king's bench, common pleas, or exchequer, or by the clerk of the peace in the records of the quarter sessions, of any lawful act; as a recognizance, a deed of bargain and sale, and the like. Jacob.

In English law. The registering or entering on the rolls of chancery, king's bench, common pleas, or exchequer, or by the clerk of the peace in the records of the quarter sessions, of any lawful act; as a recognizance, a deed of bargain and sale, and the like. Jacob. Less...
ENROLLMENT OF VESSELS
In the laws of the United States on the subject of merchant shipping, the recording and certification of vessels employed in coastwise or inland navigation; as distinguished from the "registration" of vessels employed in foreign commerce, U. S. v. Leetzel, 3 Wall. 566, 18 L. Ed. 67.

In the laws of the United States on the subject of merchant shipping, the recording and certification of vessels employed in coastwise or inland navigation; as distinguished from the "registration" of vessels employed in foreign commerce, U. S. v. Leetzel, 3 Wall. 566, 18 L. Ed. 67. Less...
ENS LEGIS
L. Lat. A creature of the law; an artificial being, as contrasted with a natural person. Applied to corporations, considered as deriving their existence entirely from the law.

L. Lat. A creature of the law; an artificial being, as contrasted with a natural person. Applied to corporations, considered as deriving their existence entirely from the law. Less...
ENSCHEDULE
To insert in a list, account, or writing.

To insert in a list, account, or writing. Less...
ENSEAL
To seal. Ensealing is still used as a formal word in conveyancing.

To seal. Ensealing is still used as a formal word in conveyancing. Less...
ENSERVER
L. Fr. To make subject to a service or servitude Britt c. 54.

L. Fr. To make subject to a service or servitude Britt c. 54. Less...
ENTAIL
v. To settle or limit the succession to real property; to create an estate tail.

v. To settle or limit the succession to real property; to create an estate tail. Less...
ENTAIL
n. A fee abridged or limited to the issue, or certain classes of issue, instead of descending to all the heirs. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 66; Cowell; 2 BL Comm. 112, note. Entail, in legal treatises, is used to signify an estate tail, especially with reference to the restraint which More...

n. A fee abridged or limited to the issue, or certain classes of issue, instead of descending to all the heirs. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 66; Cowell; 2 BL Comm. 112, note. Entail, in legal treatises, is used to signify an estate tail, especially with reference to the restraint which such an estate imposes upon its owner, or, in other words, the points where in such an estate differs from an estate in fee-simple. And this is often its popular sense; but sometimes it is, in popular language, used differently, so as to signify a succession of life-estates, as when it is said that "an entail ends with A.," meaning that A. is the first person who is entitled to bar or cut off the entail, being in law the first tenant in tail. Mozley A Whitley. -Break or bar an entail. To free an estate from the limitations imposed by an entail and permit its free disposition, anciently by means of a fine or common recovery, but now by deed in which the tenant and next heir join.-Quasi entail. An estate par autre vie may be granted, not only to a man and his heirs, but to a man and the heirs of his body, which is termed a "quasi entail" the interest so granted not being properly an estate tail, (for the statute De Donis applies only where the subject of the entail is an estate of inheritance,) but yet so far in the nature of an estate-tail that it will go to the heir of the body as special occupant during the life of the cestui que vie, in the same manner as an estate of inheritance would descend, if limited to the grantee and the heirs of his body. Wharton. Less...
ENTAILED
Settled or limited to specified heirs, or in tail. -Entailed money. Money directed to be invested in realty to be entailed. 3 A 4 Wm. IV, c 74, M 70, 71, 72.

Settled or limited to specified heirs, or in tail. -Entailed money. Money directed to be invested in realty to be entailed. 3 A 4 Wm. IV, c 74, M 70, 71, 72. Less...

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