The act of making free; giving a franchise or freedom to;investiture with privileges or capacities of freedom, or municipal or political liberty.Admission to the freedom of a city; admission to political rights,

In English law. The conversion of copyhold intofreehold tenure, by a conveyance of the fee- simple of the property from the lord of themanor to the copyholder, or by a release from

In French law. A contract. The obligation arising from a quasi contract The terms “obligation” and “engagement” are said to be synonymous, (17 Toullier,no. 1;) but the Code seems specially to apply

This is said to be a word of very general signification; and, when used in an act, its meaning must be sought out from the act itself, and the language which surrounds

L Fr. England.

In English law. A proceeding in the court of exchequer in matters of revenue.

This phrase may refer to the place where the marriage issolemnized, or it may refer to the nationality and domicile of the parties between whomit is solemnized, the place where the union

In copyright law. The art of producing on hard material incised orraised patterns, lines, and the like, from which an impression or print is taken. The termmay apply to a text or

To copy the rude draft of an Instrument in a fair, large hand. To writeout, in a large, fair hand, on parchment.In old criminal law. To buy up so much of a

One who engrosses or writes on parchment in a large, fair hand.One who purchases large quantities of any commodity in order to acquire amonopoly, and to sell them again at high prices.

In English law. The getting into one’s possession, or buying up, largequantities of corn, or other dead victuals, with intent to sell them again. The totalengrossing of any other commodity, with intent

This word, taken tn an unqualified sense, is synonymous with “increased,”and comprehends any increase of value, however caused or arising. Thornliurnv. Doscher (C. C.) 32 Fed. 812.

L. Fr. Inheritance.

The share of the eldest A term of the English law descriptive of the lotor share chosen by the eldest of coparceners when they make a voluntary partition.The first choice (primer election)

To require; command; positively direct To require a person, by writ ofinjunction from a court of equity, to perform, or to abstain or desist from, some actClifford v. Stewart, 95 Me. 38,

The exercise of a right; the possession and fruition of a right, privilege, or incorporeal hereditament.

To make larger; to increase; to extend a time limit; to grant further Ume.Also to set at liberty one who has been imprisoned or in custody.

A species of release which inures by way of enlarging anestate, and consists of a conveyance of the ulterior interest to the particular tenant; asif there be tenant for life or years,

Extending, or making more comprehensive; as an enlarging statute,which is a remedial statute enlarging or extending the common law. 1 Bl. Comm. 80,87