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Emendals

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In English law

This ancient word is said to be used in the accounts of the inner temple, where so much in emendals at the foot of an account signifies so much in bank, in stock, for the supply of emergencies.

Cunningham.

EMENDARE (Law Lat.) In Saxon law. To make amends or satisfaction for any crime or trespass committed; emendam solvere, to pay a fine; to be fined.

Spelman.

Emendare se, to redeem, or ransom one's life, by payment of a weregild. To repair.

Reg. Orig. 44b.

EMENDATIO (Lat.) In Old English Law. Amendment, or correction; the power of amending and correcting abuses, according to certain rules and measures.

Cowell.

In Saxon Law

A pecuniary satisfac-