Embracery

In criminal law. An attempt to corrupt or influence a jury, or any way incline them to be more favorable to one side than to the other, by money, promises, threats, or persuasions, whether the juror on whom such attempt is made give any verdict or not, or whether the verdict be true or false.

Hawk. P. C. 259; Bac. Abr. "Juries" (M 3); Co. Litt. 157b, 369a; Hob. 294; Dyer, 84a, pi. 19; Noy, 102; 1 Strange, 643; 11 Mod. Ill, 118; Comyn, Dig. 601; 5 Cow. (N. Y.) 603.

EMBRING (or EMBER) DAYS.

In ecclesiastical law

Those days which the ancient fathers called "quatuor tempora jejunU" are of great antiquity in the church. They are observed on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday next after Quadragesima Sunday, or the first Sunday in Lent, after Whitsuntide, Holyrood Day, in September, and St. Lucy's Day, about the middle of December. Britt. c.

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Our almanacs call the weeks in which they fall the "Ember Weeks," and they are now chiefly noticed on account of the ordination of priests and deacons; because the canon appoints the Sundays next after the Ember weeks for the solemn times of ordination, though the bishops, if they please, may ordain on any Sunday or holiday. Enc. Lond. EM EN DA (Lat.) Amends; that which Is given in reparation or satisfaction for a trespass committed, or, among the Saxons, a compensation for a crime.

Spelman.