Embracery
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
In criminal law. The offence of attempting to influence a jury corruptly to one side, by promises, persuasions, entreaties, money, entertainments, and the like.
1 Hawk. P. C. 259.
4 Chitty's Bl. Com. 140, and note.
4 Steph. Com. 253.
Punished in England by fine and imprisonment. Id. ibid.
See Lewis' U. S. Crim. Law, 241.