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  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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.
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