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  • EMPHYTEUTICUS
    In the civil law. Founded on, growing out of, or having the character of, an emphyteusis; held under an emphyteusis. 3 Bl. Comm. 232.
  • EMPIRE
    The dominion or jurisdiction of an emperor; the region over which the dominion of an emperor extends; imperial power; supreme dominion; sovereign command.
  • EMPIRIC
    A practitioner in medicine or surgery, who proceeds on experience only, without science or legal qualification; a quack. Nelson v. State Board of Health, 108 Ky. 769, 57 S. W. 501, 50 L. R. A. 383; Parks v. State, 159 Ind. 211, 64 N. E. 862, 59 L. R. A. More...
  • EMPLAZAMIENTO
    In Spanish law. A summons or citation, issued by authority of a judge, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to appear before the tribunal at a designated day and hour.
  • EMPLEAD
    To indict; to prefer a charge against; to accuse.
  • EMPLOI
    In French law. Equitable conversion. When property covered by the regime dotal is sold, the proceeds of the sale must be reinvested for the benefit of the wife. It is the duty of the purchaser to see that the price is so reinvested. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 557.
  • EMPLOY
    To engage in one's service; . to use as an agent or substitute in transacting business; to commission and intrust with the management of one's affairs; and, when used in respect to a servant or hired laborer, the term Is equivalent to hiring, which implies a request and a contract More...
  • EMPLOYED
    This signifies both the act of doing a thing and the being under contract or orders to do it. U. S. v. Morris, 14 Pet. 475, 10 L. Ed. 543; U. S. v. The Catharine, 2 Paine, 721, Fed. Cas. No. 14,755.
  • EMPLOYEE
    This word "is from the French, hut has become somewhat naturalized in our language. Strictly and etymlogically, it means 'a person employed,' but, in practice in the French language, it ordinarily is used to signify a person in some official employment, and as generally used with us, though perhaps not More...
  • EMPLOYER
    One who employs the services of others; one for whom employees work and who pays their wages or salaries. -Employers' liability acts. Statutes defining or limiting the occasions and the extent to which employers shall be liable in damages for injuries to their employees occurring in the course of the More...
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