enurement
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]enurement (uncountable)
- (obsolete) use, practice, action, execution
- (law) One's right to have or control an asset.
- 1866, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin, page 164:
- 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.
- 1983, Bonnie B. Katz, Proceedings of the National Health Lawyers Association's Eighth Annual Program on Health Law Update, page 149:
- If it is forgoing interest, or if it has the chance of paying someone a guaranteed amount even through [sic] they have not earned it, it is all a form of giving up a part of income that could be enurement.
- 2018, James M. Klotz, International Sales Agreements:
- If the agreement is assigned, an enurement clause ensures that the assignee will be bound by the terms of the agreement.