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EMPLEAD

To indict; to prefer a charge against; to accuse.

EMPLOI

In French law. Equitable conversion. When property covered by the rigimcdotal is sold, the proceeds of the sale must be reinvested for the benefit of the wife. Itis the duty of the

EMPLOY

To engage in one’s service; to use as an agent or substitute iu transactingbusiness; to commission and intrust with the management of one’s affairs; and, whenused in respect to a servant or

EMPLOYED

This signifies both the act of doing a thing and the being under contractor orders to do it. U. S. v. Morris, 14 Pet. 475, 10 L. Ed. 543; U. S. v.

EMPLOYEE

This word “is from the French, but has become somewhat naturalized in our language. Strictly and etymologically, it means ‘a person employed,’ but, in practice in the French language, it ordinarily is

EMPLOYER

One who employs the services of others; one for whom employees workand who pays their wages or salaries.

EMPLOYMENT

This word does not necessarily import an engagement or rendering services for another. A person may as well be “employed” about his own business as in the transaction of the same for

EMPORIUM

A place for wholesale trade in commodities carried by sea. The name issometimes applied to a seaport town, but it properly signifies only a particular place insuch a town. Smith, Diet. Antiq.

EMPRESTITO

Iu Spanish law. A loan. Something lent to the borrower at his request. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 18, 1. 70.

EMPTIO

In the Roman and civil law. The act of buying; a purchase.

EMPTIO BONORUM

A species of forced assignment for the benefit of creditors; being apublic sale of an insolvent debtor’s estate whereby the purchaser succeeded to all hisproperty. rights, and claims, and became responsible for

EMPTIO ET VENDITIO

Purchase and sale; sornelimes translated “emp- tion and vendition.” The nameof the contract of sale in the Roman law. Inst. 3. 23; Bract, fol. 016. Sometimes made acompound word,cmptio-venditio.

EMPTIO REI SPERATAE

A purchase in the hope of an uncertain future profit; the purchase of a thing not yet inexistence or not yet in the possession of the seller, as, the cast of a

EMPTOR

Lat A buyer or purchaser. Used in the maxim “caveat emptor,” let thebuyer beware; i. e., the buyer of an article must be on his guard and take the risks ofhis purchase.Emptor

EMTIO

In the civil law. Purchase. This form of the word is used in the Digests andCode. Dig. 18, 1; Cod. 4, 49. See EMPTIO.

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 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 SIMULATION

A form of action used in Louisiana. Its object is to have a contract declared judicially a simulation and a nullity, to remove a cloud from the title, and to bring back,

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