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Search Results for "E" ENROLLMENT Eng. law. The registering, or entering in the rolls of chancery, kings bench, common pleas, or exchequer, or by the clerk of the peace in the records... more TO ENTAIL To create an estate tail. Vide Tail. ... more ENTIRE That which is not divided, that which is whole. 2. When a contract is entire, it must in general be fully performed, before the... more ENTIRETY, or, ENTIERTIE This word denotes the whole, in contradistinction to moiety, which denotes the half part. A hushand and wife, when jointly seized of land, are seized by... more ENTREPOT A warehouse, a magazine where goods are deposited, and which are again to be removed. ... more ENTRY criminal law. The unlawful breaking into a house, in order to commit a crime. In cases of burglary, the least entry with the whole or... more ENTRY estates, rights. The taking possession of lands by the legal owner. 2. A person having a right of possession may assert it by a peaceable entry,... more ENTRY commercial law. The act of setting down the particulars of a sale, or other transaction, in a merchants or tradesmans accouut books, such entries are, in general, prima... more ENTRY AD COMMUNE LEGEM Eng. law. The name of a writ which lies in favor of the reversioner, when the tenant for term of life, tenant for term of anothers life, tenant... more ENTRY OF GOODS commercial law. An entry of goods at the custom-house is the submitting to the officers appointed by law, who have the collection of the customs, goods imported. into... more ENTRY, WRIT OF The name of a writ issued for the purpose of obtaining possession of land from one who has entered unlawfully, and continues in possession. This is... more TO ENURE To take, or have effect or serve to the use, benefit, or advantage of a person. The word is often written inure. A release to... more ENVOY international law. In diplomatic language, an envoy is a minister of the second rank, on whom his sovereign or government has conferred a degree of dignity and respectability,... more EPILEPSY med. jur. A discase of the brain, which occurs in paroxysms, with uncertain intervals between them. 2. These paroxysms are characterized by the loss of... more EPISCOPACY eccl. law. A form of government by diocesan bishops, the office or condition of a bishop. ... more EPISTLES civil law. The name given to a species of rescript. Epistles were the answers given by the prince, when magistrates submitted to him a question of law.... more EQUALITY Possessing the same rights, and being liable to the same duties. See 1 Toull. No. l70, 193, Int. 2. Persons are all equal before... more EQUINOX The name given to two periods of the year when the days and nights are equal, that is, when the space of time between the... more EQUITABLE That which is in conformity to the natural law. Wolff, Inst. 83. ... more EQUITABLE ESTATE An equitable estate is a right or interest in land, which, not having the properties of a legal estate, but being merely a right of which... more |