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ENROLL

To register; to make a record; to enter on the rolls of a court; to transcribe.Ream v. Com., 3 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 209.

ENROLLED BILL

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

ENROLLMENT

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

ENROLLMENT OF VESSELS

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

ENS LEGIS

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.

ENSEAL

To seal. Ensealing is still used as a formal word in conveyancing.

ENTAIL

v. To settle or limit the succession to real property; to create an estate tail.

BREAK OR BAR AN ENTAIL

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

QNASI ENTAIL

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

ENTAILED

Settled or limited to specified 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 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.

ENTER

In the law of real property. To go upon land for the purpose of taking possession of it In strict usage, the enteringis preliminary to the taking possession but In common parlance

ENTERING JUDGMENTS

The formal entry of the judgment on the rolls of the court, which is necessary before bringing an appeal or an action on the judgment. Blatchford v.Newberry, 100 111. 401; Winstead v.

ENTERING SHORT

When bills not due are paid into a bank by a customer, it is the custom of some bankers not to carry theamount of the bills directly to his credit, but to

ENTERCEUR

L. Fr. A party challenging (claiming) goods; he who has placed them Inthe hands of a third person. Kel- ham.

ENTERTAINMENT

This word is synonymous with “board,” and includes the ordinarynecessaries of life. See Scatter- good v. Waterman, 2 Miles (Pa.) 323; Lasar v. Johnson,125 Cal. 549, 58 Pac. 161; In re Breslin.

ENTICE

To solicit, persuade, or procure. Nash v. Douglass, 12 Abb. Prac. N. S. (N.Y.) 190; People v. Carrier, 46 Mich. 442, 9 N. W. 487; Gould v. State. 71 Neb. 651, 99

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