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Webster 1913 Edition

Emblement

Em′ble-ment

,
Noun.
[OF.
embleer
to sow with corn, F.
emblaver
, fr. LL.
imbladare
; pref.
in-
+ LL.
bladum
grain, F.
blé
.]
(Law)
The growing crop, or profits of a crop which has been sown or planted; – used especially in the plural. The produce of grass, trees, and the like, is not emblement.
Wharton’s Law Dict.

Webster 1828 Edition

Emblement

EM'BLEMENT

,
Noun.
used mostly in the plural.
The produce or fruits of land sown or planted. This word is used for the produce of land sown or planted by a tenant for life or years, whose estate is determined suddenly after the land is sown or planted and before harvest. In this case the tenant's executors shall have the emblements. Emblements comprehend not only corn, but the produce of any annual plant. But the produce of grass and perennial plants belongs to the lord, or proprietor of the land.

Definition 2024

emblement

emblement

English

Noun

emblement ‎(plural emblements)

  1. Annual crops produced by cultivation. Emblements are treated as personal property.

Etymology

1485, from Old French emblayement, emblaiment ‎(“harvest, crop”), from emblaer, emblaier, emblader ‎(French emblaver, “to sow with grain”), from Medieval Latin imblādāre ‎(“to sow with grain”), from im- + blādum ‎(French blé, “grain”), from Frankish *blād ‎(“produce”), from Proto-Germanic *blēdaz, *blēdō ‎(“flower, leaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhlēdh-, *bhlō(w)-, *bhol- ‎(“to flower; leaf”). Cognate with Old High German blāt ‎(“flower, blossom, prosperity”), Middle Dutch blaad ‎(“leaf”), Old English blǣd ‎(“shoot, flower, fruit, harvest, wealth”). More at bloom.

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