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Enlistment

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

The act of making a codtract to serve the government in a subordinate capacity, either in the army ol" navy. It may signify either the complete fact of entering into the military service, or the first step taken by the recruit towards that end.

8 Allen (Mass.) 485.

The contract so made is also called an "enlistment." See, as to the power of infants to enlist, 4 Bin. (Pa.) 487; 5 Bin. (Pa.) 423; 6 Bin. (Pa.) 255; 1 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 87; 11 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 93. ENORMIA (Lat.) Wrongs. It occurs In the old Latin forms^ of pleading, where, after a specific allegation of the wrongs done by the defendant, the plaintiff alleges generally that the defendant did alia enormia (other wrongs), to the damage, etc.

2 Greenl. Ev. § 278; 1 Chit. PI. 397.

See "Alia Enormia."

See Alia Enormia.