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Enlistment
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EnlistmentThe 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.
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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.
Government
"natural and political law. The manner in which sovereignty is exercised in each state. There are three simple forms of government, the democratic, the aristocratic, and monarchical. But these three simple forms may be varied to infinity by the mixture and divisions of their different powers. Sometimes by the word government is understood the body of men, or the individual in the state, to whom is entrusted the executive power. It is taken in this sense when the government is spoken of in opposition to other bodies in the state.
Capacity
This word, in the law sense, denotes some ability, power, qualifi- cation, or competency of persons, natural, or artificial, for the performance of civil acts, depending on their state or condition, as defined or fixed by law; as, the capacity to devise, to bequeath, to grant or convey lands; to take; or to take. and hold lands to make a contract, and the like.
Navy
The whole shippings taken collectively, belonging to the government of an independent nation; the ships belonging to private individuals are not included in the navy.
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.
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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.
Enlistment
Enormia
Wrongful acts.
Enrollment
English law. The registering, or entering in the rolls of chancery, king's bench, common pleas, or exchequer, or by the clerk of the peace in the records of the quarter sessions, of any lawful act; as a recognizance, a deed of bargain and sale, and the like.
Entiertie
Entiretie or Entierty. This word denotes the whole, in contradistinction to moiety, which denotes the half part.
Entire
That which is not divided; that which is whole.
Entire agreement clause
A provision in a contract stating that the entire agreement between the parties is contained in that document. Tends to invalidate oral agreements as well as undated side agreements or attachments unless specifically incorporated. Such a clause doesn't prevent the parties from making subsequent changes to a contract, but any changes should be in a writing dated and signed by all parties.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
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.
Government
"natural and political law. The manner in which sovereignty is exercised in each state. There are three simple forms of government, the democratic, the aristocratic, and monarchical. But these three simple forms may be varied to infinity by the mixture and divisions of their different powers. Sometimes by the word government is understood the body of men, or the individual in the state, to whom is entrusted the executive power. It is taken in this sense when the government is spoken of in opposition to other bodies in the state.
Capacity
This word, in the law sense, denotes some ability, power, qualifi- cation, or competency of persons, natural, or artificial, for the performance of civil acts, depending on their state or condition, as defined or fixed by law; as, the capacity to devise, to bequeath, to grant or convey lands; to take; or to take. and hold lands to make a contract, and the like.
Navy
The whole shippings taken collectively, belonging to the government of an independent nation; the ships belonging to private individuals are not included in the navy.
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.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
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.
Enlistment
Enormia
Wrongful acts.
Enrollment
English law. The registering, or entering in the rolls of chancery, king's bench, common pleas, or exchequer, or by the clerk of the peace in the records of the quarter sessions, of any lawful act; as a recognizance, a deed of bargain and sale, and the like.
Entiertie
Entiretie or Entierty. This word denotes the whole, in contradistinction to moiety, which denotes the half part.
Entire
That which is not divided; that which is whole.
Entire agreement clause
A provision in a contract stating that the entire agreement between the parties is contained in that document. Tends to invalidate oral agreements as well as undated side agreements or attachments unless specifically incorporated. Such a clause doesn't prevent the parties from making subsequent changes to a contract, but any changes should be in a writing dated and signed by all parties.
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