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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In Its usual sense, to entitle is to give a right or title; therefore a person is said to be entitled to property when he has a right to it.

L. R. 20 Eq. 534.

In Ecclesiastical Law. To entitle Is to give a title or ordination as a minister.

Gibs. Code, 141, note.

In Practice. To prefix to a document the title of the cause to which it relates. ENTREBAT (Law Fr.) An Intruder or interloper. Britt. c.

114.