Tag: EM
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Emanoipatio
Definition of Emanoipatio Freedom from power. (1) By the ancient process of three fictitious sales, each followed by a manumission : abolished by Justinian. (2) By imperial rescript registered by a magistrate (Anastasius). (3) The parent went direct before a Judge or magistrate and let his […]
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Embargo
Definition of Embargo The provisional seizure or detention by a State qf ships or property, generally in its own ports. If only applied by a State to its own ships by virtue of municipal law, it is termed civil embargo ; if not, it is hostile embargo, which is a method of international redress […]
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Embiricos V. Anglo- Austrian Bank
Definition of Embiricos V. Anglo- Austrian Bank ([1905] 1 K. B. 677). The transfer of a bill of exchange or other similar instrument is governed, like a transfer of chattels, by the law of the place where such instrument is when the transfer takes place.The plaintiffs sued the defendants for […]
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Emblements
Definition of Emblements The right to emblements is the right in certain circumstances of an away-going tenant or his executors to gather the crop sown before his estate determined Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Emblements in the Dictionaries, […]
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Embracery
Definition of Embracery The common law misdemeanour committed by a person who by any means whatever, except the production of evidence and argument in open Court, attempts to influence or instruct any juryman Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription […]
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Embrey V. Owen
Definition of Embrey V. Owen ((1851), 6 Ex. 353). Held, that every riparian owner has a right to take a reasonable quantity of water for the benefit of his riparian estate so long as he does not seriously interfere with the rights of the lower riparian owners to a similar user Browse You might […]
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Eminent Domain
Definition of Eminent Domain The right of a Government to take private property for public purposes. In international law the State is regarded not only as having a power of disposition over the whole of the national territory, but also as the representative owner of both the national […]
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Embiricos V. Anglo- Austrian Bank
Definition of Embiricos V. Anglo- Austrian Bank ([1905] 1 K. B. 677). The transfer of a bill of exchange or other similar instrument is governed, like a transfer of chattels, by the law of the place where such instrument is when the transfer takes place.The plaintiffs sued the defendants for […]
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Embracery
Definition of Embracery The common law misdemeanour committed by a person who by any means whatever, except the production of evidence and argument in open Court, attempts to influence or instruct any juryman Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription […]