TO ENURE.
To take, or have effect or serve to the use, benefit, or advantage of a
person. The word is often written inure. A release to the tenant for
life, enures to him in reversion; that is, it has the same effect for
him as for the tenant for life. A discharge of the principal enures to
the benefit of the surety.
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CONDONATION . A term used in the canon law. It is a forgiveness by the husband of his wife, or by a wife of her husband, of adultery c...
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COMMISSION , contracts, civ. law. When one undertakes, without reward, to do something for another in respect to a thing bailed. This ...
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