In England, certain schools having endowments are distinctively known as "endowed schools;" and a series of acts of parliament regulating them are known as the "endowed schools acts." Mozley A Whitley. … [Read more...]

A term used in equity. When the donor of a power, who is the owner of the estate, confers upon persons not seised of the fee, the right of creating interests to take effect out of it, which could not be done by the donee of the power, unless by such authority; this is called an enabling power. 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1928. … [Read more...]

A process of concealing something by encoding it so that it can only be decoded by the intended party who can decrypt the item. … [Read more...]

The bestowing or assuring of a dower to a woman. It is sometimes used: metaphorically, for the setting a provision for a charitable institution, as the endowment of a hospital. 1. The assignment of dower; the setting off a woman's dower. 2 Bl. Comm. 135. 2. In appropriations of churches, (in English law,) the setting off a sufficient maintenance for the vicar in perpetuity. 1 … [Read more...]

A statute enabling persons or corporations to do what before they could not. … [Read more...]