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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

In the civil law. A buyer or purchaser; the buyer. Dig. 18, 1; Cod. 4, 49.

In the civil law. A female purchaser; the. purchaser. Cod. 4, 54. 1.

L Fr. Iu time past 2 Inst. 500.

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.

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,

In default. Used in Louisiana of a debtor who fails to pay on demandaccording to the terms of his obligation. See Bryan v. Cox, 3 Mart. (La. N. S.) 574.En eschange il

Fr. In fact; in deed; actually.

Span. Judicially; in a court of law; in a suit at law. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. a c. 1.

Fr. In a mass; in a lump; at wholesale.

L. Fr. In a dead hand; in mortmain. Britt. c. 43.

L. Fr. In equal hand. The word “owel” occurs also in the phrase “owelty of partition.”