Engrossing
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The offense committed by an engrosser; writing on parchment in a large, fair hand. See "Engross." EN IT! A PARS (Law Lat.) The part of the eldest. Co. iitt.
166; Bac. Abr. "Coparceners" (C).
When partition is voluntarily made among coparceners in England, the eldest has the first choice, or primer election (q. v.), and the part which she takes is called enitia pars. This right is purely personal, and descends. It is also said that even her assignee shall enjoy it; but this has been doubted. The word enitia is said to be derived from the old French eiswe, the eldest.