ENCOURAGE
In criminal law. To instigate ; to incite to action; to give courage to; toInspirit; to embolden; to raise confidence; to make confident. Comitez v. Parkerson (C.C.) 50 Fed. 170; True v.
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In criminal law. To instigate ; to incite to action; to give courage to; toInspirit; to embolden; to raise confidence; to make confident. Comitez v. Parkerson (C.C.) 50 Fed. 170; True v.
An encroachment upon a street or highway is a fixture, such as awall or fence, which intrudes into or invades the highway or incloses a portion of it,diminishing its width or area,
See INCUMBER.
See INCUMBRANCE.
Object; intent. Things are construed according to the end. Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, no. 10.
In mining law, the end lines of a claim, as platted or laid down on theground, are those which mark its boundaries on the shorter dimension, where it crossesthe vein, while the
To make free; to enfranchise.
In medical jurisprudence. An inflammation of the muscular tissue of the heart.
See INDORSE.
In England, certain schools having endowments are distinctivelyknown as “endowed schools;” and a series of acts of parliament regulatingthem are known as the “endowed schools acts.” Mozley & Whitley.
1. The assignment of dower; the setting off a woman’s dower. 2 Bl.Comm. 135.2. In appropriations of churches, (in English law,) the setting off a sufficient maintenancefor the vicar in perpetuity. 1
In life insurance. A policy which is payable when the insuredreadies a given age. or upon his decease, if that occurs earlier. Carr v. Hamilton, 129 U.S. 252, 9 Sun. Ct. 295.
in public law, signifies either the nation which is at war with another, or acitizen or subject of such nation.
In international law, and particularly in the usage of prize courts, this term designates anyproperty which is engaged or used in illegal intercourse with the public enemy, whetherbelonging to an ally or
A nation at war with the United States; alsoevery citizen or subject of such nation. Not including robbers, thieves, privatedepredators, or riotous mobs. State v. Moore, 74 Mo. 417. 41 Am. Rep.
To Invest with an estate by feoffment. To make a gift of any corpon ahereditaments to another. See FEOFFMENT.
The act of investing with any dignity or possession; also the instrument or deed by which a person is invested with possessions.
In Spanish law. Emphyteusis. (
To put into execution; to cause to take effect; to make effective; as, toenforce a writ, a judgment, or the collection of a debt or fine. Breitenbach v. Bush, 44Pa. 320, 84
To make free; to incorporate a man in a society or body politic.