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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...] about ENDOWMENT

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

See encumbrance. A lien. A claim by a party other than the owner on a parcel of real estate or other property or property right. See INCUMBER. … [Read more...] about ENCUMBER

international law. By this term is understood the whole body of a nation at war with another. It also signifies a citizen or subject of such a nation, as when we say an alien enemy. In a still more extended sense, the word includes any of the subjects or citizens of a state in amity with the United States, who, have commenced, or have made preparations for commencing … [Read more...] about ENEMY

In Saxon law. The satisfaction for a crime; the recompense for a fault. Skene. … [Read more...] about ENACH