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  • EMMENAGOGUES
    In medical jurisprudence. The name of a class of medicines supposed to have the property of promoting the menstrual discharge, and sometimes used for the purpose of procuring abortion.
  • EMOLUMENT
    The profit arising from office or employment; that which is received as a compensation for services, or which is annexed to the possession of ofilce as salary, fees, and perquisites; advantage; gain, public or private. Webster. Any perquisite, advantage, profit, or gain arising from the possession of an office. Apple More...
  • EMOTIONAL INSANITY
    The species of mental aberration produced by a violent excitement of the emotions or passions, though the reasoning faculties may remain unimpaired. See INSANITY.
  • EMPALEMENT
    In ancient law. A mode of inflicting punishment, by thrusting a sharp pole up the fundament. Enc. Lond.
  • EMPANNEL
    See IMPANEL.
  • EMPARLANCE
    See IMPARLANCE.
  • EMPARNOURS
    L. Fr. Undertakers of suits. Kelham.
  • EMPEROR
    The title of the sovereign ruler of an empire. This designation was adopted by the rulers of the Roman world after tbe decay of the republic, and was assumed by those who claimed to be their successors in the "Holy Roman Empire," as also by Napoleon. It is now used More...
  • EMPHYTEUSIS
    In the Roman and civil law. A contract by which a landed estate was leased to a tenant, either in perpetuity or for a long term of years, upon the reservation of an annual rent or canon, and upon the condition that the lessee should improve the property, by building, More...
  • EMPHYTEUTA
    In the civil law. The person to whom ah emphyteusis is granted; the lessee or tenant under a contract of emphyteusis.
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