Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

embracery

n. The attempt to corrupt or instruct a jury to reach a particular conclusion by means other than presenting evidence or argument in court, as by bribing or threatening jurors; a corrupt or wrongful attempt to influence a juror's vote on a verdict. - Also termed jury-tampering; laboring a jury. Cf. JURY-FIXING; JURY-PACKING. "The word 'embracery' . . . has tended to disappear. It is included in some of the codes but the tendency has been to divide this common-law offense into two parts, placing that which is appropriate thereto in sections on bribery and the remainder in pro