Emphyteuta

The grantee under a contract of emphyteusis or empfnitcosis.

Vicat, Voc. Jur.; Calvinus, Lex.; 1 Ilallam, c. ii. p. 1.

EMPIRE (Lat. Imperii) in). Supreme power in governing; imperial power; dominion; sovereignty. The country, region, or union of states or territories under the dominion of an emperor. Cent. Diet. It was in the sense of the first of these definitions that Chief Justice Marshall is said to have at one time used the phrase "the American Empire."

See Downes v. Bidwell, 182 U. S. 279, 21 Sup. Ct. 770. 45 L. Ed. 1088.

It is used on a tablet over the door of the old Friends' Library at Philadelphia: "The Fourth Year of the Empire." the judge, and ordering him to appear before his tribunal on a gi hour. EMPLOYE or EMPLOYEE. a of rather broad signification for one who is employed, whether his dutii are with without the walls of the building in which the chief officer usually transacts his ness. Ma Uory v. r.

S., 3 Ct CI. 257; v. I'. S.f 3 Ct. CI. 200.

It is nut usually applied to higher officers of corporatio o. domestic servants, but to clerks, workmen, and laborers, collectively. Strictly and etymologically, it- means "a person employed," but in practice, in the French language, it ordinarily is used to signify a person in some official employment, and as generally used with us, though perhaps not confined to any official employment, it is understood to mean some permanent ployment or position. It may be any one who renders service to another; Watson v. Mil'. Co., 30 N. J. Eq. 588; and has been extended so far as to embrace attorney and counsel; Gurney v. Ry. Co., 58 X. Y. 358. The servant of a contractor for carrying mail is an employe of the department of the post-office; U. S. v. Belew, 2 Brock. 280, Fed. Cas. No. 14,563; also one who received five per cent, of the cost for superintending the erection of a warehouse was held an employ,'.; Moore v. Hoaney, 14 Md. 558. See Master am> S; bvant.