Citations:emptional

English citations of emptional

• 1663, Edward Waterhous [i.e., Edward Waterhouse], chapter 23, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas […], →OCLC, page 321:

  Vel Hæreditas Titulo.] This is Title of Land, that which is patrimonial and successive, donative or testamental, acquisitive or emptional […]

• 1830, Jeremy Bentham, “Chapter 9. Ministers Collectively. Supplement to Section 17. Located How.”, in Constitutional Code, volume 1:

  The modes in which the amount of the pecuniary part of the remuneration is capable of being reduced and minimized, are, as above shewn, two: to wit—1, The reductional mode; according to which, mention is made of the greatest reduction the bidder will consent to see made from a determinate salary proposed: 2, the emptional mode; according to which, mention is made of the greatest sum he will give for it, if unreduced. Employ the reductional form of expression, the objection vanishes: but, the emptional being in effect precisely the same thing as the reductional, so likewise does the emptional.

• 1875, R. H. R. S., Melbourne Matutinal Manifestations‎^[1], Melbourne: Edward Fitzgerald, page 58:

  Arrived in town, each one his task assumes:
  These to dispose of produce of the looms
  By emptional goods’ fenenstral ostentation,
  And oral catachrestical laudation;