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extended sense, the term comprises also the contracts of emphyteusis, pledge, and mort gage, and even the creation of a servitude upon an estate. Escnche; 26 Cal. 88. ENBREVER. L. Fr. To write down in short; to abbreviate, or, in old language, imbreviate; to put into a schedule. Britt. c. 1. ENCAUSTUM. In the civil law. A kind of ink or writing fluid appropriate to the use of the emperor. Cod. 1, 23, 6. E N C E I N T E . Pregnant. See PREG NANCY. ENCHESON. The occasion, cause, or reason for which anything is done. Termes de la Ley. ENCLOSE. In the Scotch law. To shut up a jury after the case has been submitted to them. 2 Alis. Crim. Pr. 634. See IN CLOSE. ENCLOSURE. See INCLOSTJBE. ENCOMIENDA. In Spanish law. A grant from the crown to a private person of a certain portion of territory in 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 privileges to the military orders of Spain. ENCOURAGE. In criminal law. To instigate; to incite to action; to give cour age to; to inspirit; to embolden; to raise con fidence; to make confident. 7 Q. B. Div. 258; 4 Burr. 2073. See AID. ENCROACH. 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 shil lings rent-service, and the lord exact three. So, too, the Spencers were said to encroach the king's authority. Blount; Plowd. 94a. In the law of easements. Where the owner of an easement alters the dominant tenement; so as to impose an additional re striction or burden on the servient tenement, he is said to commit an encroachment. Sweet. ENCUMBER. See INCTTMBER. ENCUMBRANCE. See INOTJMBRANCE. END. Object; intent. Things are con strued according to the end. Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, no. 10.

EN MORT MEYNE. L. Fr. In a dead hand; in mortmain. Britt. c. 43. EN OWEL MAIN. L. Fr. In equal hand. The word "owel" occurs also in the phrase "owelty of partition." EN RECOUVREMENT. Fr. In French law. An expression employed to de note 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. EN ROUTE. Fr. On the way; in the course of a voyage or journey; in course of transportation. EN VENTRE SA MERE. L.Fr. In its mother's womb. A term descriptive of an unborn child. For some purposes the law regards an infant en ventre as in being. It may take a legacy; have a guardian; an es tate may be limited to its use, etc. 1 Bl. Comm. 130. EN VIE. L. Fr. In life; alive. Britt. c. 50. ENABLING POWER. When thedonor of a power, who is the owner of the estate, confers upon persons not seised of the fee the right of creating interests to take effect out of it, which could not be done by the donee of the power unless by such authority, this is called an " enabling power." 2 Bouv. Inst. no. 1928. ENABLING STATUTE. The act of 82 Henry VIII. c. 28, by which tenants in tail, husbands seised in right of their wives, and others, were empowered to make leases for their lives or for twenty-one years, which they could not do before. 2 Bl. Comm. 319; Co. Litt. 44a. The phrase is also applied to any statute enabling persons or corporations to do what before they could not. ENACH. In Saxon law. The satisfac tion for a crime; the recompense for a fault. Skene. ENACT. To establish by law; to per form or effect; to decree. The usual intro ductory formula in making laws is, "Be it en acted." ENAJENACION. 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 title, as by sale or barter. In a more

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