Category: E

Extending, or making more comprehensive; as an enlarging statute, which is a remedial statute enlarging or ex-tending the common law. 1 Bl. Comm. 86, 87

To make larger; to in-crease; to extend a time limit; to grant fur-ther time. Also to set at liberty one who has been imprisoned or in custody

The exercise of a right; the possession and fruition of a right, privilege, or incorporeal hereditament

To require; command; posi-tively direct To require a person, by writ of injunction from a court of equlty, to per-form, or to abstain or desist from, Bome act Clifford v. Stewart, 95 Me. 38, 49 Ath 52; Lawrence v. Cooke, 32 Hun, 126

The share of the eldest ? term of the Engllsh law descriptlve of the lot or share chosen by the eldest of coparceners when they make a voluntary par-titlon. The first choice (primer election) be* longs to the eldest Co. Litt 166

L. Fr. Inheritance

To copy the rude draft of an instrument in a fair, large hand. To write out, in a large, fair hand, on parch-ment

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 Bcript, bnt is generally restricted to pictorial illustrations or works connected with the fine arts, not Including the reproduction of pictures […]

This phrase^ may refer to the place where the marriage ‘ is solemnized, or lt may refer to the nation-ality and domicile of the parties between whom it is solemnized, the place where the’ union so created is to be enjoyed. 6 Prob. Div. 51

Lu Fr. England

A law was made by Canute, for the preservation of his Danes, that, when a man was killed, the hundred or town should be liable to be amerced, unless it conld be proved that the person killed was an Englishman. This proof was called “En-gleshire.” 1 Hale, P. C. 447 ; 4 Bl. Comm. 195; […]

This ls said to be a word of very general signification; and, when used ln an act, its meaning must be sought out from the act itself, and the language which surrounds it, and also from other acts in pari materia, ln which it occurs. Abbott. J., 6 Maule & 8. 192. In a large […]

In Frenob law. A

The act of mak-lng free; giving a franchise or freedom to; investiture with privileges or capacities of freedom, or, municipal or political liberty. Admission to the freedom of a city; admis-sion to political rights, and particularly the right of suffrage. Anciently, the acquisition of freedom by a villein from hls lord

To make free; to In-corporate a man in a society or body politic

To put into execution; to cause to take effect; to make effective; as, to enforce a writ, a judgment, or the collec-tion of a debt or fine. Breitenbach v. Bush, 44 Pa. 320, 84 Am. Dec. 442; Emery v. Emery, 9 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 132; People v. Chrtaterson, 59 111. 158

In Spanish law. Emphy-teusis. (q. v.) See Mulford v. Le Franc, 26 Cal. 103

The act of investing with any dignity or possession; also the instrument or deed by which a person is in-vested with possessions

To invest with an estate by feoffment. To make a gift of any corporeal hereditaments to another. See Feoffment

1. The assignment of ilower; the setting off a woman’s dower. 2 Rl. Comm. 135

See Indobse

In medical Jurlspru-dence. An inflammatlon of the muscular tissue of the heart

or ENDENIZEN. To make free; to enfranchise

See Incumbrance

See Incumbeb

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 lt, diminishing its width or area, but without closing it to public travel. State v. Kean, 69 N. H. 122, 45 Atl. 256, 48 Ll R. A. […]

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

In criminal law. To instigate; to incite to action; to give cour-age to; to inspirit; to embolden; to raise confidence; to make confident Comitez v. Parkerson (C. C.) 50 Fed. 170; True v. Com., 90 Ky. 651, 14 S. W. 684; Johnson v. State, 4 Sneed (Tenn.) 621

In Spanish law. A grant from the crown to a private person of a certain portion of territory ln 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 of prlvlleges to the military […]

See Inclosure

In the Scotch law. To shut up a jury after the case has been submitted to them. 2 Alls. Crim. Pr. 634. See Inclose

The occasion, cause, or reason for which anything is done. Termes de la Ley

Pregnant See Pregnancy

In the civil law. A kind of Ink or writlng fluid appropriate to the use of the emperor. Cod. 1, 23, 6

L. Fr. To write down ln short; to abbreviate, or, ln old language, imbreviate; to pnt lnto a schedule. Britt, c. 1

In Spanish and Mex-ican law. Alienation; transfer of property. The act by which the property in a thing, by lucrative title, is transferred, as a donation; or by onerous tltle, as by sale or bar-ter. In a more extended Bense, the term comprises also the contracts of emphyteusis, pledge, and mortgage, and even the crea-tion […]

To establish by law; to per-form or efTect; to decree. The usual introductory formula in making laws Is, “Be it enacted.” In re Senate File, 25 Neb. 864, 41 N. W. 981

In Saxon law. The satisfac-tion for a crlme; the recompense for a fault. Skene

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L. Fr. In life; alive. Britt, c. 50

L. Fr. In Its mother’s womb. A term descriptive of an unborn child. For some purposee the law regards an infant en ventre as ln being. It may take a legacy; have a guardian; an es-tate may be limited to Its use, etc. 1 Bl. Comm. 130

Fr. on the way; in the course of a voyage or journey; in course of transportation. McLean v. U. S., 17 CL Cl. 90

Fr. In French law. An expression employed to denote that an indorsement made in favor of a person does not transfer to him the property in the bill of exchange, but merely constitutes an authority to such person to recover the amount of the bill. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 558

L. Fr. In a dead hand; in mortmain. Britt c. 43

Fr. In a mass; in a lump; at wholesale

Span. Judicially; ln a court of law; in a suit at law. white, New Recop. b. 2, tit 8, c. L

Fr. In gross. Total; by wholesale

Fr. In fact; ln deed; actually

In default. Used In Louisiana of a debtor who fails to pay on demand according to the terms of hls ohliga-tlon. See Bryan v. Cox, 3 Mart. (La. N. S.) 574

A form of action used in Louisiana. Its object is to have a contract declared Judicially a simulation and a nullity, to re-move a cloud from the title, and to bring back, for any legal purpoae, the thing sold to the estate of the true owner. Edwards v. Ballard, 20 La. Anu. 169