Terms beginning with "M" (452 total)

Mfg. Co

v. Sager Mfg. Co., 82 Ill. App. 685. v. Craig (O. C.) 49 Fed. .370. v. Glass Bottle Blowers’ Ass’n, 59 v. Robertson, 66 N. H. 1, 25 Atl. 718, 18 L. R. A. 679.

Mich

192, 70 N. W. 406, U7 Am. St. Rep. 392; Civ. Code La. 1900. art. 20980. 493, 19 N. W. 161: State v. White. 18 424, 69 Am. Dec. 821; U. 8. v. Curley (C. C.) 122 Fed. 740; Weber v. Mick, 182 239, 80 N. W. 1081; Compton ...

Mich, 106, 9 Am. Rep

106.—Constitutional law. (1) That branch of the public law of a state which treats of the organization and frame of government, the organs and powers of sovereignty, the distribution of political and governmental autho...

MIDDLESEX, BILL OF. See BIL

MIDSHIPMAN. In ships of war, a kind of naval cadet, whose business is to second or transmit the orders of the superior officers and assist in the necessary business of the vessel, but understood to be in training for a c...

MIDSUMMER-DAY °

MICHAELMAS. The feast of the Archangel Michael, celebrated in England on the 29th of September, and one of the usual quarter days. l Michaelmas head eaarts A meeting of the heritors of Scotland, at which the roll of free...

MIDWIFE

the feast of St. John the Baptism, a festival first mentioned by Maximus Tauricensis, A. D. 400. It is generally a quarter-day for the payment of rents, etc. Wharton.

MIER

GRAND DAYS. In English practice. Certain days in the terms, which are solemnly kept in the inns of court and chancery, viz., Candlemas day in Hilary term, Ascension day in Easter, St. John the Baptist’s day in Trinity,...

MILL

1. A machine or engine for grinding, sawing, manufacturing, etc.; also the building containing such machinery. State v. Livermore, 44 N. H. 887; Lamborn v. stream for the purpose of operating the mill, with due regard t...

Miller, 9 Houst

(Del.) 564, 32 Atl. 137. (2 Bvidence which must be received and treat (Del.) 564, 32 Atl. 187; Richardson v. State, 7 Tex. App. 493.—Negligent homicide. In Texas, the act of causing the death of another by negligence ...

Milwaukee Dock Co., 29 Wis

485, 9 Am. Re 603; Miller v. Browarsky, 130 Pa. 372, 18 Atl. 643.—Warehouse system. A system of public stores or warehouses, established or authorized by law, called “bonded warehouses,” in which an importer may de...

Min. Co

y. Grizzell, 198 Ill. 313. 65 N. E. 74. —Lineal descent. See DeEscENT.—Lineal warranty. A warranty by an ancestor from whom the title did or might have come to the heir. 2 Bl. Comm. 301; Rawle, Cov. 80. v. Champion ...

Min. Co., 438 Fed

220. Among the civilians real actions, otherwise called “vindications,’ were those in which a man demanded something that was his own. They were founded on dominion, or jus in re. The real actions of the Roman law we...

MINERAL

MINARE. In old records. To mine or dig mines. Minator, a miner. Cowell. now form or which once formed a part of the solid body of the earth, both external and internal, and which are now destitute of or incapable of sup...

MINISTRI REGIS

Lat. In old English law. Ministers of the king, applied to the judges of the realm, and to all those who hold ministerial offices in the government. 2 Inst. 208.

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Minn

221, 58 N. W. 982. ae 174, 39 N. W. 312, 12 Am. St. Rep. 631. —Assessment roll In taxation. The list or roll of taxable persons and property, completed, verified, and deposited by the assessors, not as it appears afte...