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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

ENTIRE

Whole; without division, separation or diminution.

ENTIRE DAY

This phrase signifies an undivided day.not parts of two days. An entire day must have a legal, fixed, precise time to begin, anda fixed, precise time to end. A day, in contemplation

ENTIRE INTEREST

The whole interest or right, without diminution. Where a person in selling his tract of landsells also his entire interest in all improvements upon public land adjacent thereto, thisvests in the purchaser

ENTIRE TENANCY

A sole possession by one person, called “severalty,” which is contraryto several tenancy, where a joint or common possession is in one or more.

ENTIRE USE

Benefit, etc. These words in the habendum of a trust-deed for the benefit of a married woman are equivalent to the words “sole use,” or “sole and separate use,” and consequently her

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