Embracery - Law Dictionary Search Results
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embracery pl: -er·ies : an attempt to influence a jury corruptly ...
Embracery
Embracery, an attempt to influence a jury corruptly in favour of one party in a trial, by promises, persuasions, entreaties, money, entertainments, and the like. The punishment for this mis-demeanour in the person embracing and the juror embraced is, by the Common Law, and also by the (English) County Juries Act, 1825 (6 Geo. 4, c. 50),s. 61, fine and imprisonment....
embraceor
embraceor [Anglo-French, from Old French embraserre one who inflames, from embraser to set on fire, from en-, causative prefix + brase brese live coals] : a person who has committed embracery ...
Embraceor
One guilty of embracery...
Embracery
An attempt to influence a court jury etc corruptly by promises entreaties money entertainments threats or other improper inducements...
Imbracery
Embracery...
Embraceor
Embraceor [fr. embrasour, Fr.], he that, when a matter is in trial between party and party, comes to the bar with one of the parties, having received some reward so to do, and speaks in the case; or privately labours the jury, or stands in the Court to survey and overlook them, whereby they are awed or influenced, or put in fear or doubt of the matter, 19 Hen. 7, c. 13 [repealed by the (English) County Juries Act, 1825 (6 Geo. 4, c. 50), s. 62]. Termes de la Ley.The bribe giver in the offence of embracery, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 540....
Imbracery
Imbracery. See EMBRACERY....
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