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In French-law. An acte is said to be en brevet when a copy of it has not been recorded by tbe notary who drew lt

L. Fr. In the bench. 1 Anders. 51

In the right of another. See Autkb Dboit

L. Fr. Iu time past 2 Inst. 006

In the civil law. A female purchaser; the purchaser. Cod. 4, 54, 1

In the civil law. A buyer or purchaser; the buyer. Dig. 18, 1; Cod. 4, 49

In the civil law. Purchase. This form of the word ls used In the Digests aud Code. Dig. 18, 1; Cod. 4, 49. See Emptio

In the Roman and clvil law. The act of buylng; a purchase

In Spanish law. A loan. Something lent to the borrower at his re-quest. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 18, 1. 70

In Mexlcau law. Undertakers or promoters of extensive enterprises, aided by concessions or monopolistic grants from government; particularly, persons receiving extensive land grants in con-sideration of thelr bringing emigrants lnto the country and settling them on the lands, wlth a view of increasing the population and developing the resources of the country. U. 8. v. […]

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 lu such a town. Smith, Dict. Antiq

one who employs the services of others; one for whom employees work and who pays thelr wages or salaries

This signifies both the act of doing a thing and the being under con-tract or orders to do it. U. S. v. Morris, 14 Pet. 475, 10 L. Ed. 543; U. S. v. The Cath-arine, 2 Paine, 721, Fed. Cas. No. 14,755

In French law. Equitable conversion, when property covered by the rigime 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 prlce is so reinvested. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 557

To indict; to prefer a charge against; to accuse

In Spanish law. A summons or citation, issued by authority of a judge, requiring the person to whom lt ls addressed to appear before the tribunal at a designated day and hour.

A practitioner in mediciue 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. 190

The dominion or jurisdiction of an emperor; the region over which the do-minion of an emperor extends; imperial power; supreme dominion; sovereign com-mand

In the civU law. Founded on, growing out of, or having the character of, an emphyteusis; held under an emphyteusis. 3 Bl. Comm. 232

L. Fr. Undertakers of suits. Kelham

See Impablancb

See IMPANEL

In ancient law. A mode of inflicting punishment, by thrusting a sharp pole up the fundament Enc. Lond

The species of mental aberration produced by a violent excitement of the emotions or passions, though the reasoning faculties may remain unimpaired. See Insanity

The profit arising from office or employment; that which is received as a compensation for services, or which is annexed to the possession of ofiice as salary, fees, and jjerqulsites; advantage; gain, pub-lic or private, webster. Any perquisite

In medical Jurls-prudence. The name of a class of medicines supposed to have the property of promoting the menstrual discharge, aud sometimes used for the purpose of procuring abortion

In medical jurisprudence. The ejection or throwing out of any secretion or other matter from the body; the expulsion of urine, semen, etc

A person sent upon a mis-slon as the agent of another; also a secret-agent sent to ascertain the sentiments and designs of others, and to propagate opinions favorable to his employer

Eminent domain Is the right of the people or government to take private property for public use. Code Civ. Proc. Cal. 8 1237; Cherokee Nation v. Southern Kan. R. Co. (D. C.) 33 Fed. 905; Comm. v. Alger, 7 Cash. (Mass.) 85; American Print works v. Lawrence, 21 N. J. Law, 257; Twelfth St Market […]

The epoch or date whence any people begin to compute their time

In old English lav

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 tbe houses, for reparation of losses, or other emergent occasions. Spelman

Amends; something given ln reparation for a trespass; or, ln old Saxon times, in compensation for an injury or crime. Spelman

A person guilty of the offense of embracery, (q. v.) See Co. Litt 869

In the

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

The fraudulent appropriation to his own use or benefit of property or money intrusted to him by another, by, a clerk, agent, trustee, public officer, or other person acting in a fiduciary character. See 4 Bl. Comm. 230, 231; 3 Kent, Comm. 194; 4 Steph. Comm. 168, 169, 219; Fagnan v. Knox, 40 N. Y. […]

Bee Ambassador

A proclamation or order of state, usually issued in time of war or threatened hostilities, prohibiting the departure of

The act by which one who was unfree, or under the power and control of another, is set at liberty and made his own master. Fremont v. Sandown, 56 N. H. 303; Porter v. Powell, 79 Iowa, 151, 44 N. W. 295, 7 L. R. A. 17G, 18 Am. SL Rep. 353; Varney v. Young, […]

In old pleading. Spring tides. Townsh. Pl. 197

In another place; ln any other place. See 1 Vern. 4, and note

The act of a wife who voluntarily deserts her husband to cohabit with another man. 2 Bl. Comm. 130. To constitute an elopement, the wife must not only leave the husband, bnt go beyond his actual control; for if she abandons the hus* band, and goes and lives in adultery in a house belonging to […]

In England, where in a proceeding by foreign attachment the plain

Eloigned. A return made by a sheriff to a writ de homine replegiando, stating that the party to be replevied has been eloigned, or conveyed out of his jurisdiction. 3 Bl. Comm. 129

In practice. Eloigned; carried away to a distance. The old form of the return made by a sheriff to a writ of replevin, stating that the goods or beasts had been eloigned; that is, carried to a dls-tance, to places to him unknown. 3 Bl. Comm. 148; 3 Steph. Comm. 522; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 73, […]

The getting a thing or person out of the way; or removing it to a distance, so as to be out of reach. Gameau v. Mill Co., 8 wash. 467, 36 Pac. 463

In practice. (Fr. tloigncr, to remove to a distance; to remove afar ofT.) A return to a writ of replevin, when the chattels have been removed out of the way of the sheriff

In the civil law. A will or testament

The punishment of cutting out the tongue