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Endowment
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EndowmentThe bestowing or assuring of a dower to a woman.
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Dower
A wife's common law right to inherit from her husband.
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Endorsee
A party to whom an order bill of lading is endorsed by the original consignee or a previous endorsee of that same bill of lading.
Endorsement
Indorsement. Criminal law, practice. When a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a crime has been issued by a justice of the peace of one county, which is to be executed in another county, it is necessary in some states that it should be indorsed by a justice of the county where it is to be executed: this indorsement is called backing.
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Encumbrance
A burden or charge upon an estate or property, so that it cannot be disposed of without being subject to it.
Encyclopedia
A book or series of books arranged alphabetically by topics containing information on areas of law, including citations to support the information.
Endeavor
Criminal law. An attempt.
Endorsee
A party to whom an order bill of lading is endorsed by the original consignee or a previous endorsee of that same bill of lading.
Endorsement
Indorsement. Criminal law, practice. When a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a crime has been issued by a justice of the peace of one county, which is to be executed in another county, it is necessary in some states that it should be indorsed by a justice of the county where it is to be executed: this indorsement is called backing.
Endowment
Enfeoff
To give a feud.
Engagement
This word is frequently used in the French law to signify not only a contract, but the obligations arising from a quasi contract.
Engleshire
A law was made by Canutus, for the preservation of his Danes, that when a man was killed, the hundred or town should be liable to be amerced, unless it could be proved that the person killed was an Englishman. This proof was called Engleshire. It consisted, generally, of the testimony of two males on the part of the father of him that had been killed, and two females on the part of his mother.
Engrosser
Practice, conveyancing. To copy the rude draught of an instrument in a fair and large hand.
Enjoin
To order a person to perform, or to abstain and desist from performing a specified act or course of conduct.
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Dower
A wife's common law right to inherit from her husband.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Endorsee
A party to whom an order bill of lading is endorsed by the original consignee or a previous endorsee of that same bill of lading.
Endorsement
Indorsement. Criminal law, practice. When a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a crime has been issued by a justice of the peace of one county, which is to be executed in another county, it is necessary in some states that it should be indorsed by a justice of the county where it is to be executed: this indorsement is called backing.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Encumbrance
A burden or charge upon an estate or property, so that it cannot be disposed of without being subject to it.
Encyclopedia
A book or series of books arranged alphabetically by topics containing information on areas of law, including citations to support the information.
Endeavor
Criminal law. An attempt.
Endorsee
A party to whom an order bill of lading is endorsed by the original consignee or a previous endorsee of that same bill of lading.
Endorsement
Indorsement. Criminal law, practice. When a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a crime has been issued by a justice of the peace of one county, which is to be executed in another county, it is necessary in some states that it should be indorsed by a justice of the county where it is to be executed: this indorsement is called backing.
Endowment
Enfeoff
To give a feud.
Engagement
This word is frequently used in the French law to signify not only a contract, but the obligations arising from a quasi contract.
Engleshire
A law was made by Canutus, for the preservation of his Danes, that when a man was killed, the hundred or town should be liable to be amerced, unless it could be proved that the person killed was an Englishman. This proof was called Engleshire. It consisted, generally, of the testimony of two males on the part of the father of him that had been killed, and two females on the part of his mother.
Engrosser
Practice, conveyancing. To copy the rude draught of an instrument in a fair and large hand.
Enjoin
To order a person to perform, or to abstain and desist from performing a specified act or course of conduct.
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