Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural The crops or products of the land legally belonging to a tenant.
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- noun Plural form of
emblement .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The term includes emblements, in - dustrial growing crops, and things attached to or forming part of the land which are agreed to be severed before sale or under the contract of sale.
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With regard to emblements, or profits of land fowed by tenant for years, there is this difference between him and tenant for life: That where the term of tenant for years depends upon a certainty, as if he holds from Midfummer for ten years, and in the laft year he fows a crop of corn, and it is not ripe and cut before Midfummer, the end of his term, the landlord Ihall have il; for the tenant knew the expiration of his term, and therefore it was his own folly to fow what he nevci Lh. f.
A Law Grammar; Or, An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of English Jurisprudence. 1791
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