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  • EMPLOYMENT
    This word does not necessarily import an engagement or rendering services for another. A person may as well be "employed" about his own business as in the transaction of the same for a principal. State v. Canton, 43 Mo. 51.
  • EMPORIUM
    A place for wholesale trade in commodities carried by sea. The name is sometimes applied to a seaport town, but it properly signifies only a particular place in such a town. Smith, . Dict. Antiq.
  • EMPRESARIOS
    In Mexican law. Undertakers or promoters of extensive enterprises, aided by concessions or monopolistic grants from government; particularly, persons receiving extensive land grants in consideration of their bringing emigrants into the country and settling them on the lands, with a view of increasing the population and developing the resources of More...
  • EMPRESTITO
    In Spanish law. A loan. Something lent to the borrower at his request. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 18, 1. 70.
  • EMPTIO
    In the Roman and civil law. The act of buying; a purchase. -Emptio bonorum. A species of forced assignment for the benefit of creditors; being a public sale of an insolvent debtor's estate whereby the purchaser succeeded to all his property, rights, and claims, and became responsible for his debts More...
  • EMPTOR
    Lat. A buyer or purchaser. Used in the maxim "caveat emptor," let the buyer beware; i. e.; the buyer of an article must be on his guard and take the risks of his purchase. Emptor emit qnam minimo potest, venditor Tendit qnam marimo potest. The buyer purchases for the lowest More...
  • EMTIO
    In the civil law. Purchase. This form of the word is used in the Digests and Code. Dig. 18, 1; Cod. 4, 49. See EMPTIO.
  • EMTOR
    In the civil law. A buyer or purchaser; the buyer. Dig. 18, 1; Cod. 4, 49.
  • EMTRIX
    In the civil law. A female purchaser; the purchaser. Cod. 4, 54, 1.
  • EN ARERE
    L. Fr. In time past. 2 Inst. 506.
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