Enurement
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 use, practice, action, execution obsolete, uncountable
- 2 One's right to have or control an asset. uncountable
"Att'y Gen'l Black, in his opinion, holds that the United States having subsequently acquired the Indian right, the title would enure to the state under the grant made to it, and therefore the treaty stipulation could only apply to such lands as would not pass by enurement, and which the United States might lawfully and consistently with its former grant sell and dispose of, as the even numbered sections."
Example
More examples"Att'y Gen'l Black, in his opinion, holds that the United States having subsequently acquired the Indian right, the title would enure to the state under the grant made to it, and therefore the treaty stipulation could only apply to such lands as would not pass by enurement, and which the United States might lawfully and consistently with its former grant sell and dispose of, as the even numbered sections."
Etymology
From enure + -ment.
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