Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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A consensual contract to deliver a thing for a certain price. An agreement for the seller to part with a thing for money given to him by the buyer. 3 Salk. 61. EMPTOR. A buyer or purchaser. Emptor emit quam minimo potest, venditor vendit quam maximo potest. The buyer purchases for the lowest price he can; the seller sells for the highest price h» can. 2 Kent, Comm. 486. EMTIO. In the civil law. Purchase. This form of the word is used in the Digests and Code. Dig. 18, 1; Cod. 4, 49. EMTOR. In the civil law. A buyer or purchaser; the buyer. Dig. 18, 1; Cod. 4,49. EMTRIX. In the civil law. A female purchaser; the purchaser. Cod. 4, 54, 1. EN ARERE. L. Fr. In time past. 2 Inst. 506. EN AUTRE DROIT. In the right of another. See AUTEB DROIT. EN BANKE. L. Fr. In the bench. 1 Anders. 51. EN BREVET, In French law. An acte is said to be en brevet when a copy of it has not been recorded by the notary who drew it. EN DECLARATION DE SIMULA TION. A form of action used in Louisiana. Its object is to have a contract declared judi cially a simulation and a nullity, to remove a cloud from the title, and to bring back, for any legal purpose, the thing sold to the es tate of the true owner. 20 La. Ann. 169. EN DEMEURE. In default. Used in Louisiana of a debtor who fails to pay on de mand according to the terms of his obliga tion. See 3 Mart. (N. S.) 574. En eschange il covient que les estates soient egales. Co. Litt. 50. In an ex change it is desirable that the estates be equal. EN FAIT. Fr. In fact; in deed; actu ally. EN GROS. Fr. In gross. Total; bj wholesale. EN JUICIO. Span. Judicially; in a court of law; in a suit at law. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 8, c. 1. EN MASSE. Fr. In amass; in a lump*- at wholesale.

plies a request and a contract for a compen sation, and has but this one meaning when used in the ordinary affairs and business of life. 11 N. Y. 599; 58 N. Y. 371. EMPLOYED. This signifies both the act of doing a thing and the being under con tract or orders to do it. 14 Pet. 464, 475; 2 Paine, 721, 745. EMPLOYEE. This word "is from the French, but has become somewhat natural ized in our language. Strictly and etymolo gically, it means 'a person employed,' but, 4P. practice in the French language, it ordi narily is used to signify a person in some of ficial employment, and as generally used with us, though perhaps not confined to any offi cial employment, it is understood to mean some permanent employment oi position." 2 Lans. 453. See, also, 75 N. Y. 41; 111 Ind. 324, 12 N. E. Rep. 501. The word is more extensive than "clerk" or "officer." It signifies any one m place, or having charge or using a function, as well as one in office. 3 Ct. 01. 260. EMPLOYMENT. This word does not necessarily import an engagement or render teg services for another. A person may as well be "employed" about his own business as in the transaction of the same for a prin cipal. 43 Mo. 51; 56 Law J. Q. B. Div. 251. EMPORIUM. 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 in such a town. Smith, Diet. Antiq. EMPRESTITO. In Spanish law. A loan. Something lent to the borrower at his request. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 18, 1. 70. EMPTIO, EMPTION. The act of buy ing; a purchase. EMPTIO BONORUM. Lat. In Roman law. A species of forced assignment lor the benefit of creditors; being a public sale of an insolvent debtor's estate, whereby the pur chaser succeeded to all his property, n«hts, and claims, and became responsible for his debts and liabilities to the extent of a quota fixed before the transfer. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 521. EMPTIO ET VENDITIO. Lat. Pur chase and sale; sometimes translated "emp tion and vendition." The name of the con tract of sale in the Roman law. Inst. 3, 23; Bract, fol. 616. Someti mes made a compound word, emptio-venditio.

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