Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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tuity or for a long term of years, upon the reservation of an annual rent or canon, and upon the condition that the lessee should im prove the property, by building, cultivating, or otherwise, and with a right in the lessee to alien the estate at pleasure or pass it to his heirs by descent, and free from any revo cation, re-entry, or claim of forfeiture on the part of the grantor, except for non-pay ment of the rent. Inst. 3, 25, 3; 3 Bl. Comm. 232; Maine, Anc. Law, 289. The right granted by such a contract, (jtu emphyteuticum, or emphyteuticariiim.) The real right by which a person is entitled to enjoy another's estate as if it were his own, and to dispose of its substance, as far as can be done without deteriorating it. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 326. EMPHYTEUTA. In the civil law. The person to whom an emphyteusis is granted; the lessee or tenant under a contract of em phyteusis. EMPHYTEUTICUS. In thecivil law. Founded on, growing out of, or having the character of, an emphyteusis; held under an emphyteusis. 3 Bl. Comm. 232. EMPIRE. The dominion or jurisdiction of an emperor; the region over which the dominion of an emperor extends; imperial power; supreme dominion; sovereign com mand. EMPIRIC. A practitioner in medicine or surgery, who proceeds on experience only, without science or legal qualification; a quack. EMPLAZAMIENTO. 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. EMPLEAD. To indict; to prefer a charge against; to accuse. EMPLOI. In French law. Equitable conversion. "When property covered by the rSgime 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 price is so reinvested. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law. 557. EMPLOY. To engage in one's, service; to use as an agent or substitute in transact ing 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

In Scotch practice. To speak out; to state in words. A prisoner is said to emit a declaration. 2 Alis. Crim. Fr. 560. EMMENAGOGUES. In medical juris prudence. The name of a class of medicines supposed to have the property of promoting the menstrual discharge, and sometimes used for the purpose of procuring abortion. EMOLUMENT. The profit arising from office or employment; that which is received as a compensation for services, or which is annexed to the possession of office as salary, fees, and perquisites; advantage; gain, pub lic or private. Webster. Any perquisite, advantage, profit, or gain arising from the possession of an office. 105 Fa. St. 303. EMOTIONAL INSANITY. The spe cies of mental aberration produced by a vio lent excitement of the emotions or passions, though the reasoning faculties may remain unimpaired. EMFALEMENT. In ancient law. A mode of inflicting punishment, by thrusting a sharp pole up the fundament. Enc. Lond. EMPANNEL. The writing or entering by the sheriff, on a parchment schedule or roll of paper, the names of a jury summoned by him. Cowell. EMPARLANCE. See IMPARLANOE. EMPARNOURS. L. Fr. Undertakers ef suits. Kelham. EMPEROR. 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 suc cessors 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 German}* and Austria-Hungary, and by the queen of England as "Empress of India." The title "emperor" seems to denote a power and dignity superior to that of a "king." It appears to be the appropriate style of the executive head of a federal govern ment, constructed on the monarchical princi ple, and comprising in its organization sev eral distinct kingdoms or other quasi sover eign states; as is the case with the German empire at the present day. EMPHYTEUSIS. In the Roman and civil law. A contract by which a landed es tate was leased to a tenant, either in perpe AM.DICT.LAW—27

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