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;
