TO ENLARGE. To extend; as, to enlarge a rule to plead, is to extend the time during which a defendant1 may plead. To enlarge, means also to set at liberty; as, the prisoner was enlarged on giving bail2.
ENLARGING. Extending or making more comprehensive; as an enlarging statute3, which is one extending the common law.
ENTIA PARS4. The part of the eldest5. Co. Litt. 166; Bac. Ab. Coparceners, C.
2. When partition is voluntarily made among coparceners in England, the eldest has the first choice, or primer election, (q. v.) and the part which she takes is called enitia pars. This right is purely6 personal, and descends7; it is also said that even her as signee shall enjoy it; but this has also been doubted. The word enitia is said to be derived8 from the old French, eisne the eldest. Bac. Ab. Coparceners, C; Keilw. 1 a, 49 a; 2 And. 21; Cro. Eliz. 18.
ENJOYMENT9. The right which a man possesses of receiving all the product of a thing for his necessity, his use, or his pleasure.
ENLISTMENT11. Thc act of making a contract to serve the government in a subordinate capacity, either in the army or navy. The contract so made, is also called an enlistment. See, as to the power of infants to enlist10, 4 Binn. 487; .5 Binn. 423; Binn. 255; 1 S. & R. 87; 11 S. & R. 93.
ENORMIA. Wrongful acts. See Alia Enormia.
TO ENROLL12. To register; to enter on the rolls of chancery, or other court's; to make a record.
ENROLLMENT13, Eng. law. The registering, or entering in the rolls of chancery, king's bench, common pleas, or exchequer14, or by the clerk of the peace in the records of the quarter sessions, of any lawful15 act; as a recognizance, a deed of bargain and sale, and the like. Jacob, L. D.
TO ENTAIL16. To create an estate tail. Vide Tail.
ENTIRE. That which is not divided; that which is whole.
2. When a contract is entire, it must in general be fully17 performed, before the party can claim the compensation which was to have been paid to him; for example, when a man hires to serve another for one year, he will not be entitled to leave him at any time before the end of the year, and claim compensation for the time, unless it be done by the consent or default of the party hiring. 6 Verm. R. 35; 2 Pick. R. 267; 4 Pick. R. 103 10 Pick. R. 209; 4 McCord's R. 26, 246; 4 Greenl. R. 454; 2 Penna. R. 454; 15 John. R. 224; 4 Pick. R. 114; 9 Pick. R. 298 19 John. R. 337; 4 McCord, 249; 6 Harr. & John. 38. See Divisible.