Law. Forms: 5 inblement, 6 emblemente, 7 embleament, 8– emblement. [a. OF. emblaement, f. emblaer, (mod.F. emblaver) to sow with corn:—med.L. imbladāre (It. imbiadare), f. in in + bladum (= F. blé) wheat.]
‘The profits of sown land: but the word is sometimes used more largely for any products that arise naturally from the ground as grass, fruit, etc.’ (Tomlins).
1495. Act 11 Hen. VII., c. 61 § 3. All fermours … [shall] have suche Inblementis and Cornys as be sowyn theruppon.
1590. H. Swinburn, Treat. Test., 218. Emblementes, or corne growing vpon the ground.
1641. Termes de la Ley, 133 b. Embleaments are the profits of the land which have beene sowed.
1741. T. Robinson, Gavelkind, II. ii. 167. The Lessee shall not have the Emblements.
1855. H. Broom, Comm. Com. Law, 15. The general rule of law concerning emblements.
