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EMPIRE (law)


EMPIRE. This word signifies, first, authority or command; it is the power to command or govern those actions of men which would otherwise be free; command or govern those actions of men which would otherwise be free; secondly, the country under the government of an emperor but sometimes it is secondly, the country under the government of an emperor but sometimes it is used to designate a country subject to kingly power, as the British empire. used to designate a country subject to kingly power, as the British empire. Wolff, Inst. Sec. 833. Wolff, Inst. Sec. 833.