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In Amerioan law. To put forth or send out; to issue “No state shall emit bills of credit” Const U. S. art […]

In medical Jurls-prudence. The name of a class of medicines supposed to have the property of promoting the menstrual discharge, aud sometimes […]

A person sent upon a mis-slon as the agent of another; also a secret-agent sent to ascertain the sentiments and designs of […]

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

An honorary title given to cardinals. They were called “illustrissimi” and “reverendissimi” until the pontificate of Urban VIIL Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

Eminent domain is the right of the people or government to take private property for public use. Code Civ. Proc. Cal. 8 […]

The epoch or date whence any people begin to compute their time Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The act of changing one’s domicile from one country or state to another Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English lav Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To arise; to come to light. “Unless a matter happen to emerge after Is-sue joined.” Hale, Anal. § 1 Source: Black’s Law […]

An old word still made use of in the accounts of the society of the Inner Temple, where so much in emendals […]

In Saxon law. To make amends or satisfaction for any crlme or trespass committed; to pay a fine; to be fined. Spelman. […]

In criminal law. This offense consists in the attempt to influence a Jury corruptly to one side or the other, by promises, […]

Amends; something given in reparation for a trespass; or, in old Saxon times, in compensation for an injury or crime. Spelman Source: […]

L. Fr. A stealing from the people. The phrase occurs in the old rolls of parliament: “Whereas divers Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

A person guilty of the offense of embracery, (q. v.) See Co. Litt 869 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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

The vegetable chattels called “emblements” are the corn and other growth of the earth which are produced an-nually, not spontaneously, but by […]

The fraudulent appropriation to his own use or benefit of property or money intrusted to him by another, by, a clerk, agent, […]

In medical jurisprudence. The mechanical obstruction of an artery or capillary by some body traveling in the blood current, as, a blood-clot […]

GE, or EMBASSY. The mes-sage or commission given by a sovereign or state to a minister, called an “ambassador,” empowered to treat […]

In ecclesiastical law. Those days which the ancient fathers called “quatuor tempora jejunii” are of great an-tiquity in the church. They are […]

A proclamation or order of state, usually issued in time of war or threatened hostilities, prohibiting the departure of Source: Black’s Law […]

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

In old pleading. Spring tides. Townsh. Pl. 197 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)