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embracery
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..emb...
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Embracery
In the common law, embracery is the attempt to influence a juror corruptly to give their verdict in favour of one side or the other in a trial. Early English law
In English law, embracery was an offence both at common law and by statute, punishable by fine and imprisonment.
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bracery
† ˈbracery Obs. rare—1. [? Short for embracery.] Embracery, corruption.1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII, ix, title, The bill of bracery and buying of titles. 1886 in Law Q. Rev. Oct. 484 Our laws did manifest a great..jealousy of..bracery and the buying of pretenced titles.
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Maintenance and Embracery Act 1540
The Maintenance and Embracery Act 1540 (32 Hen. 8. c. 9) was an Act of the Parliament of England.
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imbrasier
imbrasier obs. var. imbraserie, embracery.1589 Sir T. Smith's Commw. Eng. ii. xiii. 72 The Matters in this Court are..Conspiracies, Champarties, Imbrasier [so in edd. 1594, 1609, 1633].
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embracing
▪ I. embracing, vbl. n.1 (ɛmˈbreɪsɪŋ) [f. embrace v.2 + -ing1.] The action of the vb. embrace in its various senses.c 1386 Chaucer Pars. T. ¶870 To ben a clene widewe, and to eschiewe the embrasynges of men. 14.. Epiph. (Tundale's Vis. 113) And all the enbrasyng of the goodly cheyne. 1474 Caxton Che...
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Jury sequestration
See also
Embracery
Contempt of court
Obstruction of justice
Witness tampering
References
Sequestration
Judicial legal terminology
Common law legal terminology
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Champerty and maintenance
, champerty and embracery, or any of them now standing and being in their full strength and force, shall be put in due execution in this realme of Ireland Poynings' Law had already imported all English statues up to 1495; the 1634 act additionally imported the Maintenance and Embracery Act 1540.
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subordination
subordination (səbɔːdɪˈneɪʃən) [ad. late L. subordinātio, -ōnem, n. of action f. subordināre to subordinate. Cf. F. subordination (17th c.), It. subordinazione, etc.] 1. The arrangement of persons or things in a series of successively dependent ranks or degrees. † Also, an instance of this, a graded...
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Thomas J. Cuddy
In December 1889 a jury found Cuddy guilty of embracery, an attempt to influence a judge or jury by corrupt means, and he was fined $750.
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juror
juror (ˈdʒʊərə(r)) Forms: 4–6 iurrour(e, 4–7 iurour, (4 ? ieror, 4–5 iuroure, -owre, 5 iorour, -owre, iorrour, 6 iourer, iewror), 6–7 iuror, (7 iurer, jurer), 7– juror. [a. AF. jurour = OF. jureor (later jureur, 12th c.) = Pr. jurador, It. giuratore:—L. jurātōr-em, agent-n. from jūrāre to swear. The...
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Perverting the course of justice
subsequently quashed the conviction and ordered a retrial; subsequently found not guilty
See also
Compounding a felony
Compounding treason
Contempt of court
Embracery
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Writ of attaint
The writ was finally abolished by the Juries Act 1825, except as regards jurors guilty of embracery.
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Attaint
Attaint
Medieval English law
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虚假申报法
亨利八世时的Maintenance and Embracery Act 1540 规定(common informer)有权就法定程序中妨碍涉及土地所有权的司法公正提请诉讼。 即便英格兰在1967年废除了这项法案,它在今天的爱尔兰共和国仍然具有效力。
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Short Titles Act 1962
It authorises the citation, by short titles, of English statutes applied to Ireland by Poynings' Act 1495 and by the Maintenance and Embracery Act 1634
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