Search for: legalism
581 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ENABLE.4 (Noah Webster)
3. To furnish with legal ability or competency; to authorize. The law enables us to dispose of our property by will.
582 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ENABLED.1 (Noah Webster)
ENABLED, pp. Supplied with sufficient power, physical, moral or legal.
583 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ENCUMBRANCE.5 (Noah Webster)
2. Load or burden on an estate; a legal claim on an estate, for the discharge of which the estate is liable.
584 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ENJOIN.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In law, to forbid judicially; to issue or direct a legal injunction to stop proceedings.
585 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EQUITABLENESS.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Equity; the state of doing justice, or distributing to each according to his legal or just claims; as the equitableness of a decision or distribution of property.
586 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ESCAPE.15 (Noah Webster)
… of legal restraint or the custody of the sheriff, without due course of law. Escapes are voluntary or involuntary; voluntary, when an officer permits an offender …
587 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EVICT.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To dispossess by a judicial process, or course of legal proceedings; to recover lands or tenements by law.
588 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EVICTED.1 (Noah Webster)
EVICTED, pp. Dispossessed by sentence of law; applied to persons. Recovered by legal process; applied to things.
589 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXACTOR.3 (Noah Webster)
1. An extortioner; one who compels another to pay more than is legal or reasonable; one who demands something without pity or regard to justice.
590 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXECUTE.7 (Noah Webster)
6. To complete, as a legal instrument; to perform what is required to give validity to a writing, as by signing and sealing; as, to execute a deed or lease.
591 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXECUTION.5 (Noah Webster)
3. The act of signing and sealing a legal instrument, or giving it the forms required to render it a valid act; as the execution of a deed.
592 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXECUTIONER.1 (Noah Webster)
EXECUTIONER, n. One who executes; one who carries into effect a judgment of death; one who inflicts a capital punishment in pursuance of a legal warrant. It is chiefly used in this sense.
593 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXTRAJUDICIAL.1 (Noah Webster)
EXTRAJUDICIAL, a. [extra, without, and judicial.] of the proper court, or the ordinary course of legal procedures.
594 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXTRAJUDICIALLY.1 (Noah Webster)
EXTRAJUDICIALLY, adv. In a manner out of the ordinary course of legal proceedings.
595 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FIXTURE.5 (Noah Webster)
4. That which is fixed to a building; any appendage or part of the furniture of a house which is fixed to it, as by nails, screws, etc., and which the tenant cannot legally take away, when he removes to another house.
596 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FLESH.24 (Noah Webster)
12. Legal righteousness, and ceremonial services.
597 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FORENSIC.2 (Noah Webster)
Belonging to courts of judicature; used in courts or legal proceedings; as a forensic term; forensic eloquence or disputes.
598 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FORISFAMILIATE.2 (Noah Webster)
To renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance. Literally, to put one’s self out of the family.
599 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GAME.10 (Noah Webster)
8. Animals pursued or taken in the chase, or in the sports of the field; animals appropriated in England to legal sportsmen; as deer, hares, etc.
600 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GARNISHMENT.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Warning; legal notice to the agent or attorney of an absconding debtor.