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...]

A species of release which inures by way of enlarging an estate, and consists of a conveyance of the ulterior interest to the particular tenant; as if there be tenant for life or years, remainder to another in fee, and he in remainder releases all his right to the particular tenant and his heirs, this gives him the estate in fee. 1 Steph. Comm. 518. … [Read more...]

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 … [Read more...]