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1. To sign the back of a check so that the check may be deposited or made payable to another payee. 2. To approve something, to back or support someone or something. See INDORSE. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
In criminal law. To instigate ; to incite to action; to give courage to; to inspirit; to embolden; to raise confidence; to make confident. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
The person or party that receives an instrument that is signed or endorsed by an endorser. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
To gain unlawfully upon the lands, property, or authority of another; as if one man presses upon the grounds of another too far, or if a tenant owe two shillings rent-service, and the lord exact three. So, too, the Spencers were said to encroach the king's authority. Blount; Plowd. 94a. In the law of easements. Where the owner of an easement alters the dominant tenement, so as … [Read more...]
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Vide Indorsement. … [Read more...]