Law. 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, 74. To the same Jury not so well, on account of the danger or suspicion of embracery, and so forth.
1887. Times, 31 March, 3/5. The plaintiff … was charged … with the offence of embracery.
