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  • ENCEINTE
    Pregnant. See PREGNANCY.
  • ENCHESON
    The occasion, cause, or reason for which anything is done. Termes de la Ley.
  • ENCLOSE
    In the Scotch law. To shut up a jury after the case has been submitted to them. 2 Alls. Crim. Pr. 634. See INCLOSE.
  • ENCLOSURE
    See INCLOSURE.
  • ENCOMIENDA
    In Spanish law. A grant from the crown to a private person of a certain portion of territory in the Spanish colonies, together with the concession of a certain number of the native inhabitants, on the feudal principle of commendation. 2 Wools. Pol. Science, 161, 162. Also a royal grant More...
  • ENCOURAGE
    In criminal law. To instigate; to incite to action; to give courage to; to inspirit; to embolden; to raise confidence; to make confident Comltez v. Parkerson (O. C.) 50 Fed. 170; True v. Com., 90 Ky. 651, 14 S. W. 684; Johnson v. State, 4 Sneed (Tenn.) 621.
  • ENCROACH
    To gain unlawfully upon the lands, property, or authority of another; as if one man presses upon the grounds of another too far, or if a tenant owe two shillings rent-service, and the lord exact three. So, too, the Spencers were said to encroach the king's authority. Blount; Plowd. 94a. More...
  • ENCROACHMENT
    An encroachment upon a street or highway is a fixture, such as a wall or fence, which intrudes into or invades the highway or incloses a portion of it, diminishing its width or area, but without closing it to public travel. State v. Kean, 69 N. H. 122, 45 Atl. More...
  • ENCUMBER
    See INCUMBER.
  • ENCUMBRANCE
    See INCUMBRANCE.
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