Employed

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

Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)