Enabling Statute
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
The act of 32 Henry VIII. c.
28, by which tenants In tall, husbands seised in right of their wives, and others, 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 44a.
The phrase is also applied to any statute enabling persons or corporations to do what before they couid not