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enroll
enroll or en·rol vt en·rolled en·roll·ing 1 : to insert, register, or enter in a list, catalog, or roll [enrolled the deed] 2 : to prepare a final copy of (a bill passed by a legislature) in written or printed form see also enrolled bill at bill compare engross en·roll·ment n ...
bill
bill 1 : a draft of a law presented to a legislature for enactment ;also : the law itself [the GI ] ap·pro·pri·a·tions bill [ə-prō-prē-ā-shənz-] : a bill providing money for government expenses and programs NOTE: Appropriations bills originate in the House of Representatives. bill of attainder 1 : a legislative act formerly permitted that attainted a person and imposed a sentence of death without benefit of a judicial trial see also attainder compare bill of pains and penalties in this entry 2 : a legislative act that imposes any punishment on a named or implied individual or group without a trial NOTE: Bills of attainder are prohibited by Article I of the U.S. Constitution. bill of pains and penalties : a legislative act formerly permitted that imposed a punishment less severe than death without benefit of a judicial trial compare bill of attainder in this entry NOTE: The term bill of attainder is often used to include bills of p...
Enrollment
Enrollment, register, record; writing in which anything is recorded.The act of recording or registering, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 551.By the Statute of Enrolments, 27 Hen. 8, c. 16, now repealed by the (English) L.P. Amendment Act, 1924 (15 Geo. 5, c. 5),Sch. 10, every bargain and sale of a freehold interest was required to be enrolled in Chancery within six [lunar] months after its date.No assurance before 1926 by a tenant-in-tail under the (English) Fines and Recoveries abolition Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 74), will have any operation unless enrolled in the Central Office within six calendar months after its execution, which enrolment is sufficient of itself, even where the conveyance was by bargain and sale, within the Statute of Enrolments. This provision did not extend to copyholds, the enrolment then being on the Court-rolls of the manor. By s. 133 the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, enrolment is not required in respect of assurances or instruments executed or ma...
Review, Bill in Nature of Bill of
Review, Bill in Nature of Bill of, filed where decree had not been enrolled....
Review, Bill of
Review, Bill of, was in the nature of proceedings in error, and its object was to procure an examination and alteration or reversal of a final decree in Chancery duly signed and enrolled.The objects of this proceeding may now be attained by an appeal to the Court of Appeal. See APPEAL....
Enroll
To insert in a roil to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court hence to record to insert in records to leave in writing as to enroll men for service to enroll a decree or a law also reflexively to enlist...
Enrolled person
Enrolled person, means an under-officer or other person enrolled under this Act. [Border Security Force Act, 1968 (47 of 1968), s. 2 (1) (k)]...
Fait enrolle
Fait enrolle, a deed enrolled, as a bargain and sale of freeholds, 1 Keb. 568....
Bill of Exchange
Bill of Exchange. Defined in the (English) Bills of Exchange Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 61), s. 3, as an 'unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.'It is a chose in action, but, for the encouragement of commerce, it is assignable, at Common Law, by mere endorsement, so that very many names are frequently attached to one bill as endorsers, and each of them is liable to be sued upon the bill, if it be not paid in due time. the person who makes or draws the bill is called the drawer, he to whom it is addressed is, before acceptance, the drawee, and after accepting it, the acceptor; the person in whose favour it is drawn is the payee; if he endorse the bill to another, he is called the endorser, and the person to whom it is thus assigned or negotiated ...
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