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To make free; to incorporate a man in a society or body politic. … [Read more...] about ENFRANCHISE

To command; to require; as, private individuals are not only permitted, but enjoined by law to arrest an offender when present at the time a felony is committed or dangerous wound given, on pain of fine and imprisonment if the wrong doer escape through their negligence. 2. In a more technical sense, to enjoin, is to command or order a defendant in equity to do or not to do a … [Read more...] about ENJOIN

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...] about ENFRANCHISEMENT

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...] about ENJOYMENT

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...] about ENGAGEMENT