Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

ENTERING SHORT

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ENORMOUS

ENTAIL, n. A fee abridged or limited to the issue, or certain classes of issue, in stead 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 re straint which such an estate imposes upon its own er, or, in other words, the points wherein such an estate differs from an estate in fee-simple. And this is often its popular sense; but sometimes it is, in popular language, used differently, so as to signify a succession of life-estates, as when it is said that "an entail ends with A.," meaning that A. is the first person who is entitled to bar or cut off the entail, being in law the first tenant in taiL Mozley & Whitley. ENTAILED. Settled or limited to speci fied heirs, or in tail. ENTAILED MONEY. Money directed to be invested in realty to be entailed. 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 74, §§ 70, 71, 72. ENTENCION. In old English law. The plaintiff's count or declaration. ENTENDMENT. The old form of in tendment, (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. ENTER. In the law of real property. To go upon land for the purpose of taking possession of it. In strict usage, the enter ing is preliminary to the taking possession, but in common parlance the entry is now merged in the taking possession. In practice. To place anything before a court, or upon or among the records, in a formal and regular manner, and usually in writing; as to "enter an appearance," to "enter a judgment." In this sense the word is nearly equivalent to setting down formally in writing, in either a full or abridged form. ENTERCEUR. L. Fr. A party chal lenging (claiming) goods; he who has placed them in the hands of a third person. Kel ham. ENTERING JUDGMENTS. The form al entry of the judgment on the rolls of the court, which is necessary before bringing an appeal or an action on the judgment. ENTERING SHORT. When bills not due are paid into a bank by a customer, it is the custom of some bankers not to carry the amount of the bills directly to his credit, but to "enter them short," as it is called, »'. e., to note down the receipt of the bills, their

ENORMOUS. Aggravated. "So enor mous a trespass." Vaughan, 115. Written "enormious," in some of the old books. Enormious is where a thing is made without a rule or against law. Brownl. pt. 2, p. 19. ENFLEET. Anciently used for implead. Cowell. ENQUEUE, or ENQUEST. In canon law. An examination of witnesses, taken down in writing, by or before an authorized judge, for the purpose of gathering testimo ny to be used on a trial. ENREGISTREMENT. In French law. Registration. A formality which consists in inscribing on a register, specially kept for the purpose by the government, a summary anal ysis of certain deeds and documents. At the same time that such analysis is inscribed upon the register, the clerk places upon the deed a memorandum indicating the date up on which it was registered, and at the side of such memorandum an impression is made with a stamp. Axg. Fr. Merc. Law, 558. ENROLL. To register; to make a rec ord; to enter on the rolls of a court; to tran scribe. ENROLLMENT. In English law. The registering or entering on the rolls of chan cery, king's bench, common pleas, or excheq uer, or by the clerk of the peace in the rec ords of the quarter sessions, of any lawful act; as a recognizance, a deed of bargain and sale, and the like. Jacob. ENROLLMENT OF VESSELS. In the laws of the United States on the subject of merchant shipping, the recording and cer tification of vessels employed in coastwise or inland navigation; as distinguished from the "registration" of vessels employed in foreign commerce. 3 Wall. 566. 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 entire ly from the law. ENSCHEDTTLE. To insert in a list, ac count, 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 succes sion to real property; to create an estate tail.

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