Emit

To put out; to send forth. The tenth section of the first article of the constitution contains various prohibitions, among which is the following: "No state shall emit bills of credit." To emit bills of credit is to issue paper intended to circulate through the community for its ordinary purposes, as money, which paper is redeemable at a future day.

Craig v. Missouri, 4 Pet. (U. S.) 410, 432, 7 L. Ed. 903; Briscoe v. Bank, 11 Pet. (U. S.) 257, 9 L.. Ed. 709; Ramsey v. Cox, 28 Ark. 369; Linn v. Bank, 1 Scam. (111.) 87, 25 Am. Dec. 71; Story, Const. § 1358.

See Bills of Credit.

See Bills of Credit.

EMMENAG0GUES.

In Medical Jurisprudence. The name of a class of medicines which are believed to have the power of favoring the discharge of the menses. These are "savine (see Juniperus Sabina), black hellebore, aloes, gamboge, rue, madder, stinkmanganate of potassium, cantharides, and buni.r, and for the most part substances whir]], in large doses, act as drastic purgatives or stimulating diuretics." They are sometimes used for the criminal purpose of producing abortion (q. v.). They always endanger the life of the woman, l Beck, Med. Jur. 31G; Dunglison, Med. Diet.; Parr, Med. Diet; 3 Par. & F. Med. Jur. 88; Taylor's Mod. Jur. 184.