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Engrosser
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EngrosserPractice, conveyancing. To copy the rude draught of an instrument in a fair and large hand.
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Practice
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts.
Copy
A copy is a true transcript of an original writing.
Instrument
Contracts. The writing which contains some agreement, and is so called because it has been prepared as a memorial of what has taken place or been agreed upon.
Fair
A privileged market.
Large
Broad; extensive; unconfined. The opposite of strict, narrow, or confined. At large, at liberty
Hand
"1) That part of the human body at the end of the arm. 2) Formerly the hand was considered as the symbol of good faith, and some contracts derive their names from the fact that the hand was used in making them; as handsale, mandatum which comes from ä manu datä. The hand is still used for various legal or forensic purposes. When a person is accused of a crime and he is arraigned, and he is asked to hold up his right hand; and when one is sworn as a witness, he is required to lay his right hand on the Bible, or to hold it up. 3) Hand is also the name of a measure of length used in ascertaining the height of horses. It is four inches long. 4) In a figurative sense, by hand is understood a particular form of writing; as if B writes a good hand. Various kinds of hand have been used, as, the secretary hand, the Roman hand, the court hand. Wills and contracts may be written in any of these, or any other which is intelligible.
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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
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
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.
Enlistment
The act of making a contract to serve the government in a subordinate capacity, either in the army or navy. The contract so made, is also called an enlistment.
Enormia
Wrongful acts.
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Practice
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts.
Copy
A copy is a true transcript of an original writing.
Instrument
Contracts. The writing which contains some agreement, and is so called because it has been prepared as a memorial of what has taken place or been agreed upon.
Fair
A privileged market.
Large
Broad; extensive; unconfined. The opposite of strict, narrow, or confined. At large, at liberty
Hand
"1) That part of the human body at the end of the arm. 2) Formerly the hand was considered as the symbol of good faith, and some contracts derive their names from the fact that the hand was used in making them; as handsale, mandatum which comes from ä manu datä. The hand is still used for various legal or forensic purposes. When a person is accused of a crime and he is arraigned, and he is asked to hold up his right hand; and when one is sworn as a witness, he is required to lay his right hand on the Bible, or to hold it up. 3) Hand is also the name of a measure of length used in ascertaining the height of horses. It is four inches long. 4) In a figurative sense, by hand is understood a particular form of writing; as if B writes a good hand. Various kinds of hand have been used, as, the secretary hand, the Roman hand, the court hand. Wills and contracts may be written in any of these, or any other which is intelligible.
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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
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
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.
Enlistment
The act of making a contract to serve the government in a subordinate capacity, either in the army or navy. The contract so made, is also called an enlistment.
Enormia
Wrongful acts.
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