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  • EMBLEMENTS
    The vegetable chattels called "emblements" are the corn and other growth of the earth which are produced annually, not spontaneously, but by labor and industry, and thence are called "fructus industriales" Reiff v. Reiff, 64 Pa. 137. The growing crops of those vegetable productions of the soil which are annually More...
  • EMBLERS DE GENTZ
    L. Fr. A stealing from the people. The phrase occurs in the old rolls .of parliament: "Whereas divers murders, emblers de gentz, and robberies are committed," etc
  • EMBOLISM
    In medical jurisprudence. The mechanical obstruction of an artery or capillary by some body traveling in the blood current as, a blood-clot (embolus), a globule of fat or an air-bubble. Embolism is to be distinguished from "thrombosis," a thrombus being a clot of blood formed in the heart or a More...
  • EMBRACEOR
    A person guilty of the offense of embracery, (g. v.) See Co. Litt 869.
  • EMBRACERY
    In criminal law. This offense consists in the attempt to influence a jury corruptly to one side or the other, by promises, persuasions, entreaties, entertainments, douceurs, and the like. The person guilty of it Is called an "embraceor." Brown; State v. Williams, 136 Mo. 293, 38 S. W. 75; Grannls More...
  • EMENDA
    Amends; something given in reparation for a trespass; or, in old Saxon times, in compensation for an Injury or crime. Spelman.
  • EMENDALS
    An old word still made use of in the accounts of the society of the Inner Temple, where so much in emendals at the foot of an account on the balance thereof signifies so much money in the bank or stock of the houses, for reparation of losses, or other More...
  • EMENDARE
    In Saxon law. To make amends or satisfaction for any crime or trespass committed; to pay a fine; to be fined. Spelman. Emendare se, to redeem, or ransom one's life, by payment of a weregild.
  • EMENDATIO
    In old English, law. Amendment or correction. The power of amending and correcting abuses, according to certain rules and measures. Cowell. In Saxon law. A pecuniary satisfaction for an Injury; the same as emenda, (q. v.) Spelman. -Emendatio panls et oerevisloe. In old English law. The power of supervising and More...
  • EMERGE
    To arise; to come to light. "Unless a matter happen to emerge after issue joined." Hale, Anal. s 1.
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