In old English law. The act of banishing or turning out of doors; rejection.

The punishment of cutting out the tongue.

In practice. Electors or choosers. Persons appointed by the court toexecute writs of venire, in cases where both the sheriff and coroner are disqualifiedfrom ac ting, and whose duty is to choose

In the civil law. A will or testament.

In practice. (Fr. Eloigner, to remove to a distance; to remove afar off.) Areturn to a writ of replevin, when the chattels have been removed out of the way of thesheriff.

The getting a tiling or person out of the way ; or removing it to adistance, so as to be out of reach. Garneau v. Mill Co., 8 Wash. 407, 36 Pac.

In practice. Eloigned; carried away to a distance. The old form of thereturn made by a sheriff to a writ of replevin, stating that the goods or beasts had beeneloigned; that is,

In England, where in a proceeding by foreign attachment the plaintiff has obtained judgment of appraisement, hut by reason of some act of the garnisheethe goods cannot be appraised, (as where he

The act of a wife who voluntarily deserts her husband to cohabit withanother man. 2 Bl. Comm. 130. To constitute an elopement, the wife must not onlyleave the husband, but go beyond

In another place; in any other place. See 1 Vern. 4, and note.In shipping articles, this term, following the designation of the port of destination,must be construed either as void for uncertainty

In old pleading. Spring tides. Townsh. PI. 197.

The act by which one who was unfree. or under the power and control of another, is set at liberty and made his own master. Fremont v. Sandowu, 50 N. H. 303;

An executive proclamation, declaring that all persons heldin slavery in certain designated states and districts were and should remain free. It wasissued January 1, 1S03, by Abraham Lincoln, as president of the

A proclamation or order of state, usually issued in time of war or threatenedhostilities, prohibiting the departure ofships or goods from some or all the ports of such state until further order.

The message or commission given by a sovereign orstate to a minister, called an “ambassador,” empowered to treat or communicate withanother sovereign or state; also the establishment of an ambassador.

The fraudulent appropriation to his own use or benefit of property or money in trusted to him by another, by a clerk, agent, trustee, public officer, or other person acting in a

In the Roman law. Alterations, modifications, and additions to the writings of the older jurists,selected to make up the body of the Pandects, introduced by Tribonian and hisassociates who constituted the commission

The vegetable chattels called “emblements” are the corn and othergrowth of the earth which are produced annually, not spontaneously, but by labor andindustry, and thence are called “fructus in- dustriales.” Reiff v.

L. Fr. A stealing from the people. The phrase occurs in the oldrolls of parliament: “Whereas divers murders, emblert de gentz, and robberies are committed,” eta

A person guilty of the offense of embracery, (g. v.) See Co. Litt 369.