Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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ENGLESHIRE

ENORMIA

ENGLESHIRE. 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 could be proved that the person killed was an Englishman. This proof was called " En ffleshire." 1 Hale, P. C. 447; 4 Bl. Comm. 195; Spelman. ENGLETERRE. England. ENGLISH INFORMATION. In En glish law. A proceeding in the court of ex chequer in matters of revenue. "ENGLISH MARRIAGE." This phrase may refer to the place where the mar riage is solemnized, or it may refer to the nationality and domicile of the parties be tween whom it is solemnized, the place where the union so created is to be enjoyed. 6 Prob. Div. 51. ENGRAVE does not include the process of reproducing pictures by means of photog raphy. 5 Blatchf. 325. ENGROSS. 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 old criminal law. To buy up so much of a commodity on the market as to obtain a monopoly and sell again at a forced price. ENGROSSER. One who engrosses or writes on parchment in a large, fair hand. One who purchases large quantities of any commodity in order to acquire a monopoly,

ceners when they make a voluntary par tition. The first choice (primer election) be longs to the eldest. Co. Litt. 166. Enitia pars semper prseferenda est propter privilegium setatis. Co. Litt. 166. The part of the elder sister is always to be preferred on account of the privilege of age. ENJOIN. To require; command; pos itively direct. To require a person, by writ of injunction from a court of equity, to per form, or to abstain or desist from, some act. ENJOYMENT. The exercise of a right; the possession and fruition of a right, priv ilege, or incorporeal hereditament. ENLARGE. To make larger; to increase; to extend a time limit; to grant further time. Also to set at liberty one who has been im prisoned or in custody. 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 paiticular tenant; as if there be tenant for life or years, remainder to another in fee, and he in remainder re leases all his right to the particular tenant and his heirs, this gives him the estate in fee. 1 Steph. Comm. 518. ENLARGING. Extending, or making more comprehensive; as an enlarging statute, which is one extending the common law. ENLARGING STATUTE. A remedial statute which enlarges or extends the com mon law. 1 Bl. Comm. 86, 87. ENLISTMENT. The act of one who vol untarily enters the military or naval service of the government, contracting to serve in a subordinate capacity. The words "enlist" and "enlistment," in law, as in common usage, may signify either the complete fact of entering into the military service, or the first step taken by the recruit towards that end. When used in the former sense, as in statutes con ferring a right to compel the military service of enlisted men, the enlistment is not deemed com pleted until the man has been mustered into the service. 8 Allen, 480. Enlistment does not include the entry of a person into the military service under a commission as an officer. 48 N. H. 280. Enlisted applies to a drafted man as well as a volunteer, whose name is duly entered on the mil itary rolls. 107 Mass. 282. ENORMIA. In old practice and plead ing. Unlawful or wrongful acts; wrongs. Bt alia enormia, and other wrongs. This phrase constantly occurs in the old writs and decla rations of trespass.

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