Enabling Statute
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The act of 32 Henry VILI.c.
28, by which tenants in tail, husbands seised in right of their wives, and otliers, were empowered to make leases for their lives or for twenty-one years, which they could not do before.
2 Bl. Comm. 319; Co. Litt, 44@.
Tho phrase is also applied to any statute enabling persons or corporations to do what before they could not.