Mem
in Scaec. Memorandum or memo randa in the Exchequer.
Terms beginning with "M" (452 total)
MEMBRANA
Meliorem conditionem ecclesis sus facere potest prelatus, deteriorem nequaquam. Co. Litt. 101. A bishop can make the condition of his own church better, but by no means worse.
MEMBRUM
Drana” is used, in citations to them, in the same way as “page” or “folio,” to distinguish the particular skin referred to.
MEMORANDUM
Lat. To be remembered ; be it remembered. A formal word with which the body of a record in the court of king’s bench anciently commenced. Townsh.
MEMORIA HOMINUM NON EXISTIT
From time whereof the memory of man does not exist to the contrary. Litt. § 170.
MEMORIA NON EXISTET
From time of which mefhuory to the contrary does not exist.
MEMORITER
Lat. From memory; by or from recollection. Thus, memoriter proof of a written instrument is such as is furnished by the recollection of a witness who had seen and known it.
MEMORY
ed by seven or more persons associated for a lawful purpose, by subscribing which, an otherwise complying with the requisitions of the companies’ acts in respect of registration they may form themselves into an incorpo...
MEN OF STRAW ' 772
- Was reduced to 60 years, and again by that of
Menominie (D. C.) 36 Fed
197; Tobacco Warehouse Co, v. Trustee, 117 Ky. 478, 78 S. W. 413, 64 L. R. A. 219.—Common-law marriage. One not solemnised in the ordinary way, but created by an agreement to marry followed by cobabitation;: a consumma...
MENS
Lat. Mind; intention; meaning; understanding; will.
Mens Rea
menz RAY-uh
A guilty mind; a guilty or wrongful purpose; a criminal intent. The physical act alone (actus reus) does not make a crime unless accompanied by a guilty mind.
MENSA
Lat. Patrimony or goods and necessary things for livelihood. Jacob. A table; the table of a money-changer. Dig. 2, 14, 47.
MENSIS
Lat. In the civil and old English law. A month. Mensts vetitus, the prohibited month; fence-month, (q. v.)
MENT
Extincto subjecto, tollitur adjunoc- TENEMENTAL LAND. [and distributed by a lord among his tenants, as opposed to the demesnes which were occupied by himself and his servants. 2 Bl. Comm. 90.
MENT IN REM, JUDGMENT IN PERSONAM
Judgments are either final or interlocu-
MENT; NaTION; State
(State vy. Lambert, 44 W. Va. 308, 28 S. E. 930.)
MENTI
Lat. In the civil law. A species of action allowed to a child who had been unjustly disinherited, to set aside the will, founded on the presumption of law, in such
MENTIRI
Lat. To lie; to assert a falsehood. Calvin.; 3 Bulst. 260.
Merc, 44, 47: Liverm. Ag
69, 70: —Factorage. The allowance or commission pad to a factor by his principal. Winne v.
MERCANTILE
MENSULARIUS. In the civil law. A money-changer or dealer in money. Dig. 2, 14, 47, 1. and commerce or the buying and selling of commodities. See In re San Gabriel Sanatorium (D. C.) 95 Fed. 273; In re Pacific
MERCATORUM ALIENIGENORUM
In old English law. A writ against the goods of aliens found within this kingdom, in recompense of goods taken from a denizen in a foreign country, after denial of restitution.
MERCES
Lat. In the civil law. Re-
MERCIMONIATUS ANGLIA
rarely applied to provisions such as are purchased day by day, or to such other articles as are required for immediate consumption.
MERCIS APPELLATIO
Mercis appellatio ad res mobiles tantum pertinet. The term “merchandise” .belongs to movable things only. Dig. 50, 16 66.
MERE MOTION
MERSCUM. A lake; also a marsh or fen-land.
MERE. LL
Fr. Mother. le mere, fille, grandmother, mother, daughter. Britt. c. 89.- Hn ventre sa mere, in its mother’s womb.
MEREY. Belg
and Germ. Bottomry, (g. v.)
MERITORIOUS
other. Here the less important ceases to have an independent existence. ro (5)
Merrill v. Pepperdine, 9 Ind. App
416, 36 N. E. 921; Larzelere v. Starkweather, 38
Merrill, 88 Me
819, 34 Atl. 160; Carter v.
Merritt, 116 U. 8S
11, 6 Kd. ; Caldwell v. Fulton, 31
MERX
Lat. Merchandise; movable ar. ticles that are bought and sold; articles of trade.
MESCREAUNTES
L. Fr. Apostates; unbellevers.
MESSAGE FROM THE CROWN. In
English law. The method of communicating between the sovereign and the house of parliament. A written message under the royal sign-manual is brought by a member of the house, being a minister of the crown or one of the r...
MESSAGE, PRESIDENT’S
Merz est quicquid vendi potest. Mer chandise is whatever can be gold. Com. 355; 8 Wood. Lect. 263.
Met
(or Metc.). Metcalf’s Massachusetts.
META
Lat. A goal, bound, or turning-point. In old English law, the term was used to denote a bound or boundary line of
METALLUM
Lat. In Romanlaw. Metal; a mine. Labor in mines, as a punishment for crime. Dig. 40,5, 24, 5; Calvin.
Metc
(Mass.) 255. (Mass.) 364.—Common weal. The public or common good or welfare. (Ky.) 65, 77 Am. Dec. 163; Walker v. Sayers, 5 Bush (Ky.) 581. (Mass.) 351; Brown v. Freed, 43 Ind. 256. - (Mass.) 325. (Mass.) 10; Fish...
Metcalf’s Reports, vol
3 Rhode Island. Metco. Ky. Metcalfe’s Kentucky Reports. Meth. Ch. Ca. Report of Methodist Church ‘Case. Mich. Michigan ;—Michigan ner —_— Michaelmas.
Mete
(Mass.) 213. Ha viscertbus verborum, from the mere words and nothing else. 1 Story, Eq. Jur. § 980; Fisher v. Fields, 10 Johns, (N. ¥.) 495.
METEGAVEL
in victuals. Cowell. .
METHOMANIA. See INSANITY
METRE. The unit of measure in the “metric system” of weights and measures It is a measure of length, being the ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator
METRE
land; a landmark; a material ebject, as a tree or a ‘pillar, marking the position or beginning of a boundary line.
METRIC SYSTEM
to the north pole, and equivalent to 39.37 inches. From this unit all the other denominations of measure, as well as of weight, are derived. The metric system was first adopted in France in 1795.
Metropolitan El. R. Co., 42 Misc. Rep
56, 85 N. ¥. Supp. 561. _ In Louisiana, prescription its defined as a manner of acquiring the ownership of property, or discharging debts, by the effect of time, and under the conditions regulated by law. Hach of these ...
METTESHEP, or METTENSCHEP. In
old records. An acknowledgment paid in a certain measure of corn; or a fine or penalty imposed on tenants for default in not doing their customary service in cutting the lord’s corn.
METUS
Lat. Fear; terror. In a technical sense, a reasonable and well-grounded apprehension of some great evil, such as death or mayhem, and not arising out of mere timidity, but such as might fall upon a man of courage. Fear m...
Mex
art. 8206. See Schm. Civil Law, 149, 309; White, New Recop. bk. 2, c. 7, § 4. —Cemso al guitar. <A redeemable annuity; otherwise called “eenso redimible.’”’ Trevino vy.