ENLISTMENT
The act of one who voluntarily enters the military or naval service ofthe government contracting to serve in a subordinate capacity. Morrisscy v. Perry, 137U. S. 157, 11 Sup. Ct. 57, 34
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The act of one who voluntarily enters the military or naval service ofthe government contracting to serve in a subordinate capacity. Morrisscy v. Perry, 137U. S. 157, 11 Sup. Ct. 57, 34
In old practice and pleading. Unlawful or wrongful acts; wrongs. Et aliaenormia, and other wrongs. This phrase constantly occurs in the old writs and declarationsof trespass.
Aggravated. “So enormous a trespass.” Yaughan, 115. Written”enormious,” in some of the old books. Enor- mious is where a thing is made without arule or against law. Brownl. pt. 2, p. 19.
Anciently used for implead. Cowell.
In canon law. An examination of witnesses, taken down inwriting, by or before au authorized judge, for the purpose of gathering testimony to beused on a trial.
In French law. Registration. A formality which consists ininscribing on a register, specially kept for the purpose by the government, a summaryanalysis of certain deeds and documents. At the same Ume that
To register; to make a record; to enter on the rolls of a court; to transcribe.Ream v. Com., 3 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 209.
In legislative practice, a bill which has been duly introduced, finallypassed by both houses, signed by the proper oliicers of each, approved by the governor(or president) and filed by the secretary of
In English law. The registering or entering on the rolls of chancery,king’s bench, common pleas, or exchequer, or by the clerk of the peace in the recordsof the quarter sessions, of any
In the laws of the United States on the subject of merchant shipping, the recording and certificationof vessels employed in coastwise or inland navigation ; as distinguished fromthe “registration” of vessels employed
L Lat. A creature of the law; an artificial being, as contrasted with anatural person. Applied to corporations, considered as deriving their existence entirely from the law.
To Insert In a list, account, or writing.
To seal. Ensealing is still used as a formal word in conveyancing.
v. To settle or limit the succession to real property; to create an estate tail.
To free an estate from the limitations imposed by an entailand permit its free disposition, anciently by means of a fine or common recovery, butnow by deed in which the tenant and
An estate pur autre vie may be granted, not only to a man and his heirs, but to a man and the heirs of hisbody, which is termed a “quasi entail;” the
Settled or limited to specified heirs, or in tail.
Money directed to be invested in realty to be entailed. 3 & 4 Wm. IV,c. 74, 70, 71, 72.
In old English law. The plaintiff’s count or declaration.
The old form of intendment, (q. v.) derived directly from the French,and used to denote the true meaning or signification of a word or sentence; that is, theunderstanding or construction of law.