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  • ENGRAVING
    In copyright law. The art of producing on hard material incised or raised patterns, lines, and the like, from which an impression or print is taken. The term may apply to a text or script but is generally restricted to pictorial illustrations or works connected with the fine arts, not More...
  • ENGROSS
    To copy the rude draft of an instrument in a fair, large hand. To write out, in a large, fair hand, on parchment. In old criminal law. To buy up so much of a commodity on the market as to obtain a monopoly and sell again at a forced price.
  • ENGROSSER
    One who engrosses or writes on parchment in a large, fair hand. One who purchases large quantities of any commodity in order to acquire a monopoly, and to sell them again at high prices.
  • ENGROSSING
    In English law. The getting into one's possession, or buying up, large quantities of corn, or other dead victuals, with intent to sell them again. The total engrossing of any other commodity, with intent to sell it at an unreasonable price. 4 Bl. Comm. 158, 159. This was a misdemeanor, More...
  • ENHANCED
    This word, taken in an unqualified sense, is synonymous with "increased," and comprehends any increase of value, however caused or arising. Thorn-burn v. Doscher (C. C.) 32 Fed. 812.
  • ENHERITANCE
    L. Fr. Inheritance.
  • ENITIA PARS
    The share of the eldest. A term of the English law descriptive of the lot or share chosen by the eldest of coparceners when they make a voluntary partition. The first choice (primer election) belongs to the eldest Co. Litt 166. Enltia pars semper prseferenda est propter privileginm ntatis. Co. More...
  • ENJOIN
    To require; command; positively direct. To require a person, by writ of injunction from a court of equity, to perform, or to abstain or desist from, some act. Clifford v. Stewart 95 Me. 38, 49 AtL 52; Lawrence v. Cooke, 32 Hun, 126.
  • 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.
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