In the civil law. A female purchaser; the purchaser. Cod. 4, 54, 1
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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
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In the civil law. Purchase. This form of the word is used In the Digests aud Code. Dig. 18, 1; Cod. 4, 49. See Emptio
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In Spanish law. A loan. Something lent to the borrower at his re-quest. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 18, 1. 70
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In the Roman and clvil law. The act of buylng; a purchase
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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
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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. Maxwell Land-Grant Co., 121 U. S. 325, 7 Sup. CL 1015, 30 L. Ed. 949
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one who employs the services of others; one for whom employees work and who pays thelr wages or salaries
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This word does not necessarily import an engagement or render-lng services for another. A person may as well be “employed” about his own business as in the transaction of the same for a prin-dpal. State v. Canton, 43 Mo. 5L
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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
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This word “is from the French, but has become somewhat naturalized in our language. Strictly and etymologically, it means ‘a person employed,’ but, in practlce in the French language, it ordl-narliy is used to signify a person in some of-flcial employment, and as generally used with us, though perhaps not confined to any offi
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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
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To engage in one’s service; to use as an agent or substitute in transact-lng business; to commission and intrust with the management of one’s affairs; and, when used in respect to a servant or hired laborer, the term is equivalent to hiring, which im-plies a request and a contract for a compen-satlon, and has but this one meaning when used in the ordinary affairs and business of life. McCluskey v. Cromwell, 11 N. Y. 605; Murray v. walker, 83 Iowa, 202, 48 N. W. 1075; Malloy v. Board of Education, 102 Cal. 642, 36 Pac. 948; Gurney v. Railroad Co., 58 N. Y. 371
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In Spanish law. A summons or citation, issued by authority of a judge, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to appear before the tribunal at a designated day and hour.
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To indict; to prefer a charge against; to accuse
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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
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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
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The title of the sovereign ruler of an empire. This designation was adopted by the rulers of the Roman world after the decay of the republic, and was as-sumed by those who claimed to be their successors in the “Holy Roman Empire,” as also by Napoleon. It is now used as the title of the monarch of some single countries, as lately in Brazil, and some composite states, as Germany and Austria-Hungary, and by the king of England as “Emperor of India
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In the civU law. Founded on, growing out of, or having the character of, an emphyteusis; held under an emphyteusis. 3 Bl. Comm. 232
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In ancient law. A mode of inflicting punishment, by thrusting a sharp pole up the fundament Enc. Lond
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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
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The species of mental aberration produced by a violent excitement of the emotions or passions, though the reasoning faculties may remain unimpaired. See Insanity
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