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enormous adj. Aggravated; excessively large <enormous crimes>.

enpleet (en-pleet), vb. See IMPLEAD.

enquete (on-ket), n. [French], Eccles. law. An examination of witnesses (taken down in writing) by or before an authorized judge for the purpose of gathering testimony to be used in a trial. Also termed enquest (on[g]-kwes[t]).

enregistrement (on-ray-zhees-tra-mon), n. [French], French law. Registration. This formality is performed by a clerk who inscribes a government register with a summary analysis of a deed or other document. The clerk then puts a stamped or sealed note on the deed or document, indicating the date on which it was registered.

enrichment The receipt of a benefit. Cf. U:'>IJUST ENRICHMENT.

enroll 1. To register or transcribe (a legal document, as a deed) into an official record on execution. Formerly also spelled inroll. 2. To prepare (a bill passed by the legislature) for the executive's signature. Cf. ENGROSS.

enrolled adj. Registered; recorded.

enrolled agent See ENROLLED AGENT.

enrolled agent- One who, though neither a certified public accountant nor an attorney, has been admitted to practice before the IRS, either by passing an examination or by working for the IRS in a technical area for at least five years. The enrolled agent is one of four types of persons who are allowed to practice before the IRS, the other three being attorneys, certified public accountants, and persons who are admitted to represent either themselves or others in a particular case.

enrolled bill A bill passed by both houses of the legislature and signed by their presiding officers. See ENROLL (2); ENROLLED-BILL RULE.

enrolled bill- See BILL (3).

enrolled-bill rule The conclusive presumption that a statute, once formalized, appears precisely as the legislature intended, thereby preventing any challenge to the drafting of the bill. "Under the 'enrolled bill rule, an enrolled bill, properly authenticated and approved by the governor, is conclusive as to regularity of its enactment. Ordinarily, the courts will not go behind the enrolled bill to determine its validity. The supreme court can look behind the enrolled bill only to determine whether the constitutional mandate relative to vote and journal entry upon the final passage have been complied with." National Conference of State Legislatures, Mason's Manual of Legislative Procedure § 702, at 497 (2000).

enrollment The act of recording or registering. Also spelled (archaically) inrollment.

enrollment of vessels Maritime law. The recording and certification of vessels used in coastal or inland navigation, as distinguished from the "registration" of vessels used in foreign commerce. Enrollment and registry are used to distinguish certificates granted to two classes of vessels. Enrollment evidences the national character of a vessel engaged in coasting trade or home traffic; registry is used to declare the nationality of a vessel engaged in foreign trade. Cf. REGISTRY (2).

enrollment office A department of the Court of Chancery responsible for storing enrolled deeds and judgments. The Enrollment Office was abolished in 1879; its duties were transferred to the Central Office.

ens legis (enz lee-jis). [Law Latin], A creature of the law; an artificial being as opposed to a natural person. The term describes an entity, such as a corporation, that derives its existence entirely from the law.

enschedule Archaic. To insert in a list, account, or writing.

enseal Archaic. To seal (a document).

enserver (en-sar-var), vb. French], To make subject to a service or servitude.

entail A fee abridged or limited to the owner's issue or class of issue rather than descending to all the heirs. See BARRING OF ENTAIL; FEE TAIL. Also termed (in Scots law) tailzie. - entailable, adj. "Entail is fee entailed, viz; abridged, limited, and tied to certain conditions at the will of the donor; where lands are given to, or settled on others." The Pocket Lawyer and Family Conveyancer 97 (3d ed. 1833).

entail- 1. To make necessary; to involve <responding to this onerous discovery will entail countless hours of work>. 2. To limit the inheritance of (an estate) to only the owner's issue or class of issue, so that none of the heirs can transfer the estate <the grantor entailed the property through a so-called "tail female">. See FEE TAIL. entailable, adj.

entailed adj. Settled or limited to specified heirs or in tail <entailed gifts>.

entailed estate See FEE TAIL.

entailed interest See INTEREST (2).

entailed interest An interest that devolves through lineal descendants only as a result of a fee tail.

entailment 1. The act of entailing an estate. 2. An estate so entailed.

entencion (en-ten-shan), n. [Law French], A plaintiff's count or declaration.

entendment Archaic. See INTENDMENT.

entente (ahn-tahnt). [French "intent, understanding"], Int'l law. 1. An understanding that two or more nations have for carrying out a common policy or course of action. An entente is looser than an alliance but stronger than the nations' merely haVing good relations. 2. The nations having such an understanding. Cf. ALLIANCE; DETENTE.

enter 1. To come or go into; esp., to go onto (real property) by right of entry so as to take possession <the landlord entered the defaulting tenant's premises>. 2. To put formally before a court or on the record <the defendant entered a plea of no contest>. 3. To become a party to <they entered into an agreement>. See ENTRY.

enterceur (en-tar-sar), n. [Law French), A party claiming goods; one who has placed goods in the hands of a third party.

enterpleder Archaic. See INTERPLEADER (1).

enterprise 1. An organization or venture, esp. for business purposes.

enterprise goodwill See GOODWILL.

enterprise liability See LIABILITY.

enterprise organization- See BUSINESS ENTERPRISES.

enterprise value See VALUE (2)

entertain 1. To bear in mind or consider; esp., to give judicial consideration to <the court then entertained motions for continuance>. 2. To amuse or please. 3. To receive (a person) as a guest or provide hospitality to (a person). 4. Parliamentary law. To recognize and state (a motion); to receive and take into consideration <the chair will entertain the motion>.

entertainment expense See EXPENSE.

entertainment expense- An expense incurred while providing entertainment relating directly to or associated with a business purpose. Entertainment expenses are partially tax-deductible.

entertainment law The field of law dealing with the legal and business issues in the entertainment industry (such as film, music, and theater), and involving the representation of artists and producers, the negotiation of contracts, and the protection of intellectual-property rights.

entice To lure or induce; esp., to wrongfully solicit (a person) to do something.

enticement 1. The act or an instance of wrongfully soliciting or luring a person to do something. 2. The tort of inducing a man's wife to leave him or to remain away from him against his will.

enticement of a child Criminal law. The act or offense of inviting, persuading, or attempting to persuade a child to enter a vehicle, building, room, or secluded place with the intent of committing an unlawful sexual act against the child. - Often shortened to enticement.

enticement of a parent The tortious interference with a child's rights and interests in maintaining-the parent-child relationship, usu. caused by a third person who induces a parent to abandon the child. Actions based on enticement, where they are recognized, are rarely successful because many states do not recognize a child's legal right to a parent's consortium or affection.

entire 1. Whole; complete in all its parts. 2. Not divisible into parts.

entire benefit See entire use under USE (4).

entire blood See full blood.

entire blood- See full blood under BLOOD.

entire day An undivided day, rather than parts of two or more days aggregated to form a 24-hour period. An entire day must have a legal, fixed, precise time to begin and end. A statute referring to an entire day contemplates a 24-hour period beginning and ending at midnight.

entire day- See DAY.

entire interest See INTEREST (2).

entire interest A whole interest or right, without diminution. See FEE SIMPLE.

entire tenancy A tenancy possessed by one person, as opposed to a joint or common tenancy. See estate by entirety under ESTATE (1).

entire tenancy See TENANCY.

entire use See USE (4).

entire-agreement clause 1. INTEGRATION CLAUSE. 2. A provision in an insurance contract stating that the entire agreement between the insured and insurer is contained in the contract, often including the application (if attached), declarations, insuring agreement, exclusions, conditions, and endorsements. - Also termed entire-contract clause.

entire-contract clause See ENTIRE-AGREEMENT CLAUSE.

entire-controversy doctrine The principle that a plaintiff or defendant who does not assert all claims or defenses related to the controversy in a legal proceeding is not entitled to assert those claims or defenses in a later proceeding. Also termed single-controversy doctrine. Cf. compulsory counterclaim under COUNTERCLAIM; RES JUDICATA (2).

entire-output contract See output contract.

entire-output contract- See output contract under CONTRACT.

entirety (en-ti-af-tee). 1. The whole, as opposed to a moiety or part. 2. Something (such as certain judgments and contracts) that the law considers incapable of being divided into parts.

entirety clause Oil & gas. A mineral-lease or deed provision specifying that royalties must be apportioned if the property is subdivided after the lease is granted. For the lessee, the clause makes it clear that the lessee's duties will increase if the lessor transfers a part of the leased premises. For the lessor, the clause avoids the nonapportionment rule.

entirety, tenancy by the See estate by entirety under ESTATE (1).

entitle 1. To grant a legal right to or qualify for. 2. Eccles. law. To ordain as a minister. Formerly also spelled intitle.

entitlement An absolute right to a (usu. monetary) benefit, such as social security, granted immediately upon meeting a legal requirement.

entitlement program A government program guaranteeing certain benefits, such as financial aid or government-provided services, to people or entities that meet the criteria set by law. Some examples of entitlement programs are unemployment benefits, Social Security, food stamps, and agricultural price-support plans. Qualified beneficiaries have an enforceable right to participate in the programs.

entity An organization (such as a business or a governmental unit) that has a legal identity apart from its members or owners.

entity assumption The presumption that a business is a unit separate from its owners and from other firms.

entity theory of partnership The theory that a partnership is an entity with a legal existence apart from the partners who make it up. Under the Uniform Partnership Act, "[a] partnership is an entity distinct from its partners." UPA § 201 (1994). Cf. AGGREGATE THEORY OF PARTNERSHIP.

entrapmeut 1. A law-enforcement officer's or government agent's inducement of a person to commit a crime, by means of fraud or undue persuasion, in an attempt to later bring a criminal prosecution against that person. 2. The affirmative defense of having been so induced. To establish entrapment (in most states), the defendant must show that he or she would not have committed the crime but for the fraud or undue persuasion. entrap, vb. "Entrapment, so-called, is a relatively simple and very desirable concept which was unfortunately misnamed, with some reSUlting confusion. It is socially desirable for criminals to be apprehended and brought to justice. And there is nothing whatever wrong or out of place in setting traps for those bent on crime, provided the traps are not so arranged as likely to result in offenses by persons other than those who are ready to commit them. What the State cannot tolerate is having crime instigated by its officers who are charged with the duty of enforcing the law .... Obviously 'entrapment' is not the appropriate word to express the idea of official investigation of crime, but it is so firmly entrenched that it seems wiser to accept it with due explanation than attempt to supplant it ...." Rollin M. Perkins & Ronald N. Boyce, Criminal Law 1161 (3d ed. 1982).

entrebat (on-tra-ba), n. [Law French], An intruder or interloper.

entrepot (on-tra-poh), n. [French], French law. A building or place where goods from abroad may be deposited and from which those goods may then be exported to another country without paying a duty.

entrepreneur (on-tra-pra-nar or -noor), n. One who initiates and assumes the financial risks of a new enterprise and who usu. undertakes its management.

entrepreneurial rights See NEIGHBORING RIGHTS.

entrust To give (a person) the responsibility for something, usu. after establishing a confidential relationship. - Also spelled (archaically) intrust. See NEGLIGENT ENTRUSTMENT. - entrustment, n.

entrusting Commercial law. The transfer of possession of goods to a merchant who deals in goods of that type and who may in turn transfer the goods and all rights to them to a purchaser in the ordinary course of business. UCC § 2-403(2).

entry 1. The act, right, or privilege of entering real property <they were given entry into the stadium>. forcible entry. See FORCIBLE ENTRY.

entry ad communem legem (ad ka-myoo-nam lee-jam). [Latin], 1. Entry at common law. 2. AD COMMUNEM LEGEM.

entry ad terminum qui praeteriit (ad tar-ma-nam kwi pri-ter-ee-it). See AD TERMINUM QUI PRAETERIIT.

entry fiction The assumption, for purposes of immigration and deportation proceedings, that an excludable alien is to be treated as if detained at the border despite his or her physical presence in the United States.

entry for marriage in speech See causa matrimonii praelocuti under CAUSA (1).

entry in casu consimili (en-tree in kay-s[y]oo kan-sim-a-li). [Latin], See CASU CONSIMILI.

entry of judgment The ministerial recording of a court's final decision, usu. by noting it in a judgment book or civil docket. Cf. RENDITION OF JUDGMENT.

entry on the roll 1. A clerk's notation on a parchment roll of the proceedings and issues in a particular case. Before parties began submitting written pleadings, they would appear (in person or through counsel) in open court and state their respective contentions orally until they settled on the issue or precise point in dispute. During the progress of these oral statements, an appointed officer of the court would make minutes of the various proceedings on a parchment roll that then became the official record of the suit. Even after the practice of oral pleadings had fallen into disuse, proceedings continued to be entered "on the roll." This practice was abolished early in the 19th century. 2. A future interest created in a transferor who conveys an estate on condition subsequent.

entry, right of See POWER OF TERMINATION.

entry, writ of See WRIT OF ENTRY.

entryman (en-tree-man), n. Archaic. A person who enters public land and stakes a claim with the intention of settling.

enumerate (i-n[y]oo-ma-rayt), vb. To count off or deSignate one by one; to list. - enumeration, n.

enumerated motion See MOTION (1).

enumerated power See POWER (3).

enumerated power A political power specifically delegated to a governmental branch by a constitution. Also termed express power.

enumerator A person appointed to collect census papers or schedules.

enunciate (i-nan-see-ayt), vb. 1. To state publicly; to announce or proclaim <the court enunciated a new doctrine yesterday>. 2. To articulate or pronounce <enunciate your syllables more clearly when you speak>. enunciation, n. - enunciable, adj. enunciator, n.

enure See INURE.

environmental audit A company's voluntary self-audit to evaluate its environmental-management programs and to determine whether it is in compliance with environmental regulations.

environmental audit- See AUDIT.

environmental crime See ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME.

environmental crime- Environmental law. A statutory offense involving harm to the environment, such as a violation of the criminal provisions in the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (commonly called the Clean Water Act), or the Endangered Species Act of 1973. - Although the most Significant environmentalcrime statutes were passed in the 19705, they date back to the late 19th century, with statutes such as the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1896 and the assorted statutes that ultimately became the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899. - Also termed crime against the environment.

environmental criminology The scholarly study of areas where crime occurs and of why offenders are active in those areas. - Also termed geography of crime; ecology of crime.