The act of making free; giving a franchise or freedom to; Investiture with privileges or capacities of freedom, or municipal or political liberty. Admission to the freedom of a city; admission to political rights, and particularly the right of suffrage. Anciently, the acquisition of freedom by a villein from his lord. The word is now used principally either of the manumission … [Read more...]

The exercise of a right; the possession and fruition of a right, privilege, or incorporeal hereditamen. Adverse enjoyment. The possession or exercise of an easement, under a claim of right against the owner of the land out of which such easement is derived. 2 Washb. Real Prop. 42; Cox v. Forrest 60 Md. 79. Enjoyment, quiet, covenant for. See COVENANT. … [Read more...]

In French law. A contract. The obligation arising from a quasi contract. The terms "obligation" and "engagement" are said to be synonymous, (17 Toulller, no. 1;) but the Code seems specially to apply, the term "engagement" to those obligations which the law imposes on a man without the intervention of any contract, either on the part of the obligor or the obligee, (article … [Read more...]

To extend; as, to enlarge a rule to plead, is to extend the time during which a defendant may plead. To enlarge, means also to set at liberty; as, the prisoner was enlarged on giving bail. To make larger; to increase ; to extend a time limit; to grant further time. Also to set at liberty one who has been imprisoned or in custody. … [Read more...]

This is said to be a word of very general signification; and, when used In an act its meaning must be sought out from the act itself, and the language which surrounds it and also from other acts in pari materia, in which It occurs. Abbott. J., 6 Maule A S. 192. In a large sense, it applies to all utensils and tools which afford the means of carrying on a trade. But in a more … [Read more...]