Enabling Statute
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
In English law
The statute 32 Hen. VIII. c.
28, by which tenants in tail, husbands seised in right of their wives, and persons seised of an estate of fee simple in right of their churches, were empowered or enabled to make leases to endure for their lives, or twenty-one years, which could not do so before.
2 Bl. Com. 319.
Co. JLitt.
44 a. 8 Steph. Com. 139.