In Amerioan law. To put forth or send out; to issue “No state shall emit bills of credit” Const U. S. art 1, $ 10
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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
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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
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In medical jurisprudence. The ejection or throwing out of any secretion or other matter from the body; the expulsion of urine, semen, etc
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An honorary title given to cardinals. They were called “illustrissimi” and “reverendissimi” until the pontificate of Urban VIIL
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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 Co. v. Philadelphia & R. T. R. Co., 142 Pa. 580, 21 AU. 989; Todd v. Austin, 34 Conn. 88; Kohl v. U. S., 91 U. S. 371, 23 L. Ed. 449
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The epoch or date whence any people begin to compute their time
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The act of changing one’s domicile from one country or state to another
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To arise; to come to light. “Unless a matter happen to emerge after Is-sue joined.” Hale, Anal. § 1
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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
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In Saxon law. To make amends or satisfaction for any crlme 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
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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; Grannis v. Branden, 5 Day (Conn.) 274, 5 Am. Dec. 143; State v. Brown, 95 N. C. 686; Brown v. Beauchamp, 5 T. B. Mon. (Ey.) 415, 17 Am. Dec. 8L
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Amends; something given in reparation for a trespass; or, in old Saxon times, in compensation for an injury or crime. Spelman
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L. Fr. A stealing from the people. The phrase occurs in the old rolls of parliament: “Whereas divers
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A person guilty of the offense of embracery, (q. v.) See Co. Litt 869
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The vegetable chattels called “emblements” are the corn and other growth of the earth which are produced an-nually, not spontaneously, but by labor and Industry, and thence are called “fructus in-dustriales” Reiff v. Reiff, 64 Pa. 137
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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. Super. Ct 49; State v. Sullivan, 49 La. Ann. 197, 21 South. 688. 62 Am. St Rep. 644; State v. Trolson, 21 Nev. 419, 32 Pac. 930; Moore v. U. S., 160 U. S. 268, 16 Sup. Ct. 294, 40 I* Ed. 422; Fulton y. Hammond (C. C.) 11 Fed. 293; People v. Gordon, 133 Cal. 328, 65 Pac. 746, 85 Am. SL Rep. 174
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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
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GE, or EMBASSY. The mes-sage or commission given by a sovereign or state to a minister, called an “ambassador,” empowered to treat or communicate with another sovereign or state; also the establishment of an ambassador
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In ecclesiastical law. Those days which the ancient fathers called “quatuor tempora jejunii” are of great an-tiquity in the church. They are observed on wednesday, Friday, and Saturday next after Quadragesima Sunday, or the first Sunday in Lent, after whitsnntide, Holyrood Day, in September, and SL Lucy’s Day, about the middle of December. Brit c. 53. our alma-nacs call the weeks in which they fall the “Ember weeks,” and they are now chiefly noticed on account of the ordination of priests and deacons; because the canon appoints the Sundays next after tbe Ember weeks for the solemn times of ordination, though the bishops, if they please, may ordain on any Sun-day or holiday. Enc. Lond
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A proclamation or order of state, usually issued in time of war or threatened hostilities, prohibiting the departure of
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In old pleading. Spring tides. Townsh. Pl. 197
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