EMANCIPA'TION, by the ancient Roman law, the son stood in the relation of a slave to the father. By a fiction of that law, the son might be freed from ',his relation by being three times sold oy the father. Renee the ment of the son derived from this cere mony the mune of emancipation. In course of time, various modes of emanci pation, both tacit and express, became recognized by the Ilmnan jurisprudence. The word, in countries following that law, signifies the exemption of the son from the power of the father, either by express act, or by implication of law. By the present civil law of France, majority (and with it emancipation) is attained at 21 years of age ; and the marriage of a minor emancipates him. In ordinary language, emancipation is used in a gen eral sense to signify the enfranchisement of a slave, or the admission of particular classes to the enjoyment of civil rights. EMBA 1.31 'LNG-, the opening a dead hotly, taking out the intestines, and till ing the place with odoriferous and desic cative drugs and spices, to prevent its putrefaction. The Egyptians have al ways been celebrated for their adherence to this practice. and the skill with which
they performed it. With some variation, it is still one of the peculiar customs of that nation. It appears to have been a metaphysical notion, inculcated as of their religion, that the soul continued with the body. There naturally followed an affectionate desire to do everything that living creatures can suppose accept able to the dead. They were even de sirous of having the dead bodies of their parents in their houses, and at their tables, and believed, as has been suggest ed, that their souls were present also; and it was essential to this gratification that those bodies should be preserved in the most perfect manner possible.—Mod ern chemistry has made us acquainted with many means of counteracting putrefac tion, more simple and more effectual than the laborious processes of the ancients. EIIBAIFIdO, in commeree, a prohibi tion of sailing, issued by authority on all shipping, either out of port, or into port. It is generally to restrain ships from leaving a port.