单词 | embracery |
释义 | embraceryn. Law. The offence of an embracer; the offence of influencing a jury illegally and corruptly. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > influencing or packing jury embracery1450 packa1475 embracing1495 bracery1540 jury-fixing1882 1450 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 56 To enquere, here, and determyn all..embraceries. 1487 Act 3 Hen. VII c. 1 §1 By endentur, promyses, othes, writyng or otherwise, enbraciaries of his subgettes. 1589 Sir T. Smith's Common-welth (rev. ed.) ii. xiii. 72 The Matters in this Court are..Conspiracies, Champarties, Imbrasier [so in edd. 1594, 1609, 1633]. 1598 tr. J. Kitchin Jurisdictions (1675) 409 One skilled in the Law, may give the evidence for his Fee to the Jury, and it is no imbracery. 1617 in R. Sanderson Rymer's Fœdera (1717) XVII. 32 Imbraseries, oppressions. 1670 Vaughan in Phœnix (1721) I. 423 Unless Imbracery, Subornation, or the like were join'd. 1808 J. Bentham Sc. Reform 72 To the same Jury not so well, on account of the danger or suspicion of embracery, and so forth. 1887 Times 31 Mar. 3/5 The plaintiff..was charged..with the offence of embracery. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1450 |
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