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Engagement
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EngagementThis word is frequently used in the French law to signify not only a contract, but the obligations arising from a quasi contract.
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Construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.
Contract
A negotiated oral or written agreement setting forth the terms for an exchange of value between parties (which may be individuals or companies) and under which each party promises to perform an obligation. Certain terms, such as the obligations to be performed and the terms for setting price or compensation must be mutually understood, known in legal lingo as a "meeting of the minds," and promised to by the parties to form a legal contract.
Quasi
A Latin word in frequent use in the civil law signifying as if, almost. It marks the resemblance, and supposes a little difference between two objects.
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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
The bestowing or assuring of a dower to a woman.
Enfeoff
To give a feud.
Engagement
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.
Enjoyment
The right which a man possesses of receiving all the product of a thing for his necessity, his use, or his pleasure.
Enlarging
Extending or making more comprehensive.
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Word
Construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.
Contract
A negotiated oral or written agreement setting forth the terms for an exchange of value between parties (which may be individuals or companies) and under which each party promises to perform an obligation. Certain terms, such as the obligations to be performed and the terms for setting price or compensation must be mutually understood, known in legal lingo as a "meeting of the minds," and promised to by the parties to form a legal contract.
Quasi
A Latin word in frequent use in the civil law signifying as if, almost. It marks the resemblance, and supposes a little difference between two objects.
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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
The bestowing or assuring of a dower to a woman.
Enfeoff
To give a feud.
Engagement
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.
Enjoyment
The right which a man possesses of receiving all the product of a thing for his necessity, his use, or his pleasure.
Enlarging
Extending or making more comprehensive.
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