embracery การใช้

• The writ was finally abolished by the Juries Act 1825, except as regards jurors guilty of embracery.
• It preserved the common law offence of embracery ( which was later abolished by the Bribery Act 2010 ).
• The Juries Act 1825, in abolishing writs of attaint, made a special exemption as regards jurors guilty of embracery ( s . 61 ).
• In the United States, embracery prosecutions have occurred as recently as 1989, when a county commissioner in Georgia was sentenced to a fine and probation.
• 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.
• The false verdict of a jury, whether occasioned by embracery or otherwise, was formerly considered criminal, and jurors were severely punished, being proceeded against by writ of attaint.
• In the Middle Ages the term was then applied to the uniforms and other devices, worn by those who accepted the privileges and obligations of " embracery ", or livery and maintenance.
• See section 3 of the Maintenance and Embracery Act 1540, the 5 Eliz 1 c 9 ( An Act for the Punyshement of suche persones as shall procure or comit any wyllful Perjurye ) and the Perjury Act 1728.