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Enrollment






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.

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Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.

Bench
The large, usually long and wide desk raised above the level of the rest of the courtroom, at which the judge or panel of judges sit.

Common
marriage law. a marriage in which no formal ceremony took place and no license exists.

Clerk
1) Commerce, contract. A person in the employ of a merchant, who attends only to a part of his business, while the merchant himself superintends the whole. 2) Ecclesiastical law. Every individual, who is attached to the ecclesiastical state, and who has submitted to the ceremony of the tonsure, is a clerk. 3) A person employed in an office, public or private, for keeping records or accounts. His business is to write or register, in proper form, the transactions of the tribunal or body to which he belongs. Some clerks, however, have little or no writing to do in their offices, as, the clerk of the market, whose duties are confined chiefly to superintending the markets.

Peace
The tranquillity enjoyed by a political society, internally, by the good order which reigns among its members, and externally, by the good understanding it has with all other nations. Applied to the internal regulations of a nation, peace imports, in a technical sense, not merely a state of repose and security, as opposed to one of violence and warfare, but likewise a state of public order and decorum.

Quarter
A measure of length, equal to four inches.

Lawful
That which is not forbidden by law. Id omne licitum est, quod non est legibus prohibitum, quamobrem, quod, lege permittente, fit, poenam non meretur. To be valid a contract must be lawful.

Act
1) Civil law, contracts. A writing which states in a legal form that a thing has been said, done, or agreed. 2) Evidence. The act of one of several conspirators, performed inpursuance of the common design, is evidence against all of them.

Recognizance
Contracts. An obligation of record entered into before a court or officer duly authorized for that purpose, with a condition to do some act required by law, which is therein specified.

Deed
Only in relatively rare circumstances is a deed required to complete a transaction. In a commercial situation the most common use is where a variation or concession is made without the other party giving anything in return. A deed is enforceable regardless of the legal requirements for contracts such as the need for consideration. Where a deed is necessary, there are special requirements for a company wishing to enter into such an arrangement which may either involve use of the company or the signature of two directors or a director and a company secretary.

Sale
Contracts. An agreement by which one of the contracting parties, called the seller, gives a thing and passes the title to it, in exchange for a certain price in current money, to the other party, who is called the buyer or purchaser, who, on his part, agrees to pay such price.



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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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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.

Entirety
Entirety or Entiertie. This word denotes the whole, in contradistinction to moiety, which denotes the half part.

Entity
A person or legally recognized organization.

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