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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • ENSCHEDULE
    To insert in a list, account, or writing.
  • ENSEAL
    To seal. Ensealing is still used as a formal word in conveyancing.
  • ENSERVER
    L. Fr. To make subject to a service or servitude Britt c. 54.
  • ENTAIL
    v. To settle or limit the succession to real property; to create an estate tail.
  • 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...
  • 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.
  • ENTENCION
    In old English law. The plaintiff's count or declaration.
  • ENTENDMENT
    The old form of intendment, (q. v.) derived directly from the French, and used to denote the true meaning or signification of a word or sentence; that is, the understanding or construction of law. Cowell.
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