Engagement

In French law. A contract. The obligation arising from a quasé contract. The terms “obligation” and “engagement” are said to be synonymous, (17 Toullier, no. 1;) but the Code seems specially to apply the term “engagement” to those obligations which the law imposes on a man without the intervention of any contract, either on the part of the obligor or the obligee, (article 1370.) Anengagement to do or omit to do something amounts toa promise.

21N. J. Law, 369.

In English Practice. Theterm has been appropriated to denote a contract entered into by a married woman with the intention of binding or charging her separate estate, or, with stricter accuracy, a promise which in the case of a person swé juris would be a contract, but in the case of a married woman is not a contract, because she cannot bind herself personally, even in equity. Her engayements, therefore, merely operate as dispositions or appointments pro tanto of her separate estate. Sweet. “ENGINE.” This is said to be a word of very general signification; and, when used in an act, its meaning must be sought out from the act itself, and the language which surrounds if, and also from other acta in pari materia, in which it occurs.

Abbott, J.,6 Maule & $.192.

In a large sense, it applies to all utensils and tools which afford the means of carrying on a trade. Butina more limited sense it means a thing of considerable dimensions, of a fixed or permanent