embracery Law.
(ɛmˈbreɪsərɪ)
Forms: 5 enbraciarie, ymbracery, 6–7 em-, imbracerie, -braserie, 5– embracery.
[f. AF. embraceour embracer2: see -ry.]
The offence of an embracer; the offence of influencing a jury illegally and corruptly.
| 1450 J. Paston Lett. I. 145 To enquere, here and determyn all..embraceries. 1487 Act 3 Hen. VII, c. 1 §1 By endentur, promyses, othes, writyng or otherwise, enbraciaries of his subgettes. 1598 Kitchin Courts Leet (1675) 409 One skilled in the Law, may give the evidence for his Fee to the Jury, and it is no imbracery. 1617 in Rymer Fœdera (1710) XVII. 32 Imbraseries, oppressions. 1670 Vaughan in Phœnix (1721) I. 423 Unless Imbracery, Subornation, or the like were join'd. 1808 Bentham Sc. Reform 72 To the same Jury not so well, on account of the danger or suspicion of embracery, and so forth. 1887 Times 31 Mar. 3/5 The plaintiff..was charged..with the offence of embracery. |