KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

ENHANCED

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ENROLLMENT OF VESSEL*

ENHANCED. This word, taken in an unqualified sense, is synonymous with "in creased," and comprehends any increase of value, however caused or arising. Thorn burn v. Doscher (O. O.) 32 Fed. 812. ENHEBITANCE. L. Fr. Inheritance. ENITIA PARS. The share of the eldest A term of the English law descriptive of the lot or share chosen by the eldest of copar ceners when they make a voluntary par tition. The first choice (primer election) be longs to the eldest Co. Ldtt 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; posi tively 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 Clifford v. Stewart 95 Me. 38, 49 Atl. 52; Lawrence v. Cooke, 32 Hun, 126. ENJOYMENT. The exercise of a right; the possession and fruition of a right, priv ilege, or incorporeal hereditament. —Adverse enjoyment. The possession or exercise of an easement, under a claim of right against the owner of the land out of which such easement is derived. 2 Washb. Real Prop. 42; Cox v. Forrest, 60 Md. 79.—Enjoyment, quiet, covenant for. See COVENANT. 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. 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 particular 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. 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. ENLISTMENT. The act of one who vol untarily enters the military or naval service of the government, contracting to serve in a subordinate capacity. Morrissey v. Perry, 137 U. S. 157, 11 Sup. Ot 57, 34 L. Ed. 644; Babbitt v. TJ. S., 16 Ct CI. 213; Erichson v. Beach, 40 Conn. 286. The words "enlist" and "enlistment," in law, as in common usage, may signify either the complete fact of entering into the military serv ice, or the first step taken by the recruit to ENLARGE. ENLARGING.

wards that end. When used in the former sense, as in statutes conferring a right to com pel the military service of enlisted men, the enlistment is not deemed completed until the man has been mustered into the service. Tyler v. Pomeroy, 8 Allen (Mass) 480. Enlistment does not include the entry of a person into the military service under a com mission as an officer. Hilliard v. Stewarts town, 48 N. H. 280. Enlisted applies to a drafted man as well as a volunteer, whose name is duly entered on the military rolls. Sheffield v. Otis, 107 Mass. 282. ENORMIA. In old practice and pleading. Unlawful or wrongful acts; wrongs. Et alia enormia, and other wrongs. This phrase con stantly occurs in the old writs and declara tions of trespass. ENORMOUS. Aggravated. "So enor mous a trespass." Vaughan, 115. Written "enormious," in some of the old books. Enor mious is where a thing is made without a rule or against law. Brownl. pt 2, p. 19. ENPLEET. Anciently used for implead. CowelL ENQUETE, or ENQUEST. In canon law. An examination of witnesses, taken down in writing, by or before an authorized judge, for the purpose of gathering testimony 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. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 558. ENROLL. To register; to make a rec ord ; to enter on the rolls of a court; to tran scribe. Ream v. Com., 3 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 209. —Enrolled bill. In legislative practice, a bill which has been, duly introduced, finally passed by both houses, signed by the proper officers of each, approved by the governor (or presi dent) and filed by the secretary of state. Sedg wick County Com'rs v. Bailey, 13 Kan. 608. 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 certi fication of vessels employed in coastwise or inland navigation; as distinguished from the "registration" of vessels employed in for eign commerce. U. S. v. Leetzel, 3 Wall. 566, 18 L. Ed. 67.

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