MINORA REGALIA
MINORA REGALIA. In English law. The lesser prerogatives of the crown, including the rights of the revenue. 1 Bl. Comm. 241.
Terms beginning with "M" (452 total)
Minter, 2 Ala
411.—Supplemental claim. A further claim which was filed when further relief was sought after the bringing of a claim.
MINUS
Lat. In the civil law. Less; less than. The word had also, in some connections, the sense of “not at all.” For example, a debt remaining wholly unpaid was described as “minus solutum.”
MINUTIO
Lat. lessening; diminution or reduction. 5, 1.
Mion
(B.). Ben Monroe’s Kentucky Reports.
Misc. Rep
197, 45 N. Y. Supp. 861; Justice ep. 576. 314, 88 N. Y. Supp. 862; Redus v. Hayden, 43 Miss. 614; Billings v. Baker. 28 Barb. (N. Y.) 343; Templeton v. Twitty. 88 Tenn. 595, 14 S. W. 435; Jackson v. John- 5098, 90 N. Y...
MISCARRIAGE
weeks after conception. Between that time, and before the expiration of the sixth month, when the child may possibly live, it is termed “abortion.” When the delivery takes place soon after the sixth month, it is deno...
Mise. Rep
558, 64 N. Y. Supp. 681. 148, 77 N. Y¥. Supp. 166; Evans’ 218, 41 N. Y. Supp. ere tent witness. One who is legally qualified to be heard to testify in a cause. Hogan v. Sherman, 5 Mich. 60; People v. Compton, 123 Ca...
MISERABILE DEPOSITUM
Lat. In the civil law. The name of an involuntary deposit, made under pressing necessity; as, for instance, shipwreck, fire, or other inevitable calamity. Poth. Proc. Civile, pt. 5, c. 1, § 1; Code La. 2035.
MISERERE
sen not authorized by the. owner or person to whom the carrier or warehouseman is bound by his contract to deliver it. Cleveland, etec., R. Co. v. Potts, 88 Ind. App. 564, 71 N. E. 689; Forbes v. Boston & L. R. Co., 133 ...
MISERICORDIA
which was commonly used to be given by the ordinary to such condemned malefactors as were allowed the benefit of clergy; whence it is also called the “psalm of mercy.” Wharton. Lat. Mercy; a fine or amerciament; an ...
MISJOINDER. See JOINDER
MISKENNING. In: Saxon and old English law. An unjust or irregular summoning to court; to speak. unsteadily in court; to vary in one’s plea. Cowell; Blount; Spelman.
MISPRISION
FEMALE. The sex which conceives and gives birth to young. Also a member of such sex. The term is generic, but may have the specific meaning of “woman,” if so indicated by the context. State v. Hemm, 82 Towa, 609, 48 ...
MISREPRESENTATION
‘sential to the support or defense of an action, is so called; as in the case of a plaintiff not merely stating his title in a defective manner, but setting forth a title which is essentially defective in itself; or if...
Miss
229. But see Bonham vy. Railroad Co., 16 S. C. 634A. 1880, § 19. 499, 35 South. 828. A right of entry on riparian lands for the purpose of fastening booms and boom sticks. Farrand vy. 105; Alexander v. State, 28 Tex....
Miss, 268, 34 South
482, 100 Am. St. Rep. 633: Gulf & Ship Island R. Co. v. Hewes, 183
MISSIO
Lat. In the civil law. <A sending or putting. Missio in bona, a putting the creditor in possession of the debtor's property. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 521. Missto judicum in consilium, a sending out of the judices (or jury) ...
MISSION
ADMITTANCE. In English law. The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. It is of three kinds: (1) Upon a voluntary grant by the lord, where the land has escheated or reverted to him. (2) Upon surrender by the form...
Mister. Mister’s Reports, vols
17-32 Missouri Appeals.
Mitchell v. Clarke, 71 Cal
164, 11 Pac. 882, 60 Am. Rep. 529.
Mitchell v. Mitchell, 80 Tex
101. 15 S. W. 705; Ames v. Hubby, 49 Tex. 705; Holyoke v. Jackson, 3 Wash. T. 235, 3 Pac. 841; Civ. Code Cal. ; 687. This partnership or community consists of the profits of all the effects of which the husband has the a...
Mitchell v. State, 42 Ohio St
383; Grogan v. State, 44 Ala. 9; Ex parte Glenn (C. C.) 111 Fed. 258; Alexander v. Com., 105 Pa. 9.
Mitchell, 82 Pa
349. A promise to be “responsible” for the contract of another is a guaranty rather than a suretyship. Bickel v. Auner, 9 Phila. (Pa.) 499.
MITIOR SENSUS
Lat. vorable acceptation.
MITIUS IMPERANTI
Mitius imperanti melius paretur. The more mildly one commands, the better is he obeyed. 3 Inst. 24.
MITTENDO MANUSCRIPTUM PEDIS
EFINIS. An abolished judicial writ addressed to the treasurer and chamberlain of the . exchequer to search for and transmit the foot of a fine acknowledged before justices in eyre into the common pleas. Reg. Orig. 14.
MITTER
L. Fr. To put, to send, or to pass; as, nitter Vestate, to pass the estate; mitter le drott, to pass a right. These words are used to distinguish different kinds of releases.
MITTER AVANT
L. Fr. In old prac tice. To put before; to present before a court; to produce in court.
Mixon, 38. Miss
458; East Kingston v.
MIXTUM IMPERIUM
Lat. In old English law. Mixed authority; a kind of civil power. A term appNed by Lord Hale to the “power” of certain subordinate civil magistrates as distinct from “jurisdiction.” Hale, Anal. § 11.
Mla
546, 3 South. 1 11 Am. St. Rep. 395. —Highway acts, or laws. The body or system of laws governing the laying out, repair, and use of highways.—Highway crossing. A lace where the track of a railroad crosses the ine of...
Mo
574, 385. Anything which is -so. irrational, unnatural, or inconvenient that it cannot be supposed to have been within the intention of men of ordinary intelligence and discretion. Black, Interp. Laws, 104. 382, 9 S. W....
Mo. App
55; Rogers v. Spokane, 9 Wash. 168, 37 Pac. 300; Ifeavenrich v. aac 57 115, 78 S. W. 291; Hogan v. Stophlet, 179 Ill. 150, 53 N. EB. 604, 44 L. R. A. 809. 57. Constructive contempts were formerly called “consequentia...
Mobile v. Wood (C. C.) 95 Fed
5388; Burchell v. Marsh, 17 How. 349, 15 L. Ed. 96; Miller
MOBILIA
Lat. Movables; movable things; otherwise called “res mobiles.”
Mobley, 1 McMul
(S. C.) 44. (8) A road intended for the use of one or more private in dividuals, and not wanted nor intended for general public use, which may be opened across the lands of other persons by statutory authority in some st...
Mobley, 189 Ala
425, 86 South. 181; Maxwell v. Wilmington Dental Mfg. Co. (C. CJ 77 Fed. 941,
Mod
44. Ad instantiam partis, at the instance of a party. Hale, Com. Law, 28. 104. 7 438; 10 Mod. 209. 107. See ImpARLANCE; SPEAKING WITH
Mod. Cas
L. & Eq. Modern Cases at per Far. (or t. Holt). Modern Cases tempore Holt, by Farresley, vol. 7 Modern Reports.
MODEL
As to mixed “Action,” “Blood,” “Contract,” “Government,” s Jury,” “larceny,” “Marriage,” “Nuisance,” “Policy,” “Presumption,” “Property,” “Tithes,” and “War,” see those t...
MODERAMEN INCULPATA
thing invented, made on a reduced scale, in compliance with the patent laws. See State v. Fox, 25 N. J. Law, 566; Montana Ore Purchasing Co. v. Boston, etc., Min. Co., 27 Mont. 288, 70 Pac. 1126.
MODERATE OASTIGAVIT
Lat. In pleading. He moderately chastised. The name of a plea in trespass which justifies an alleged battery on the ground that it consisted in a moderate chastisement of the plaintiff by the defendant, which, from their...
MODIUS
Lat. A measure. Specifically, a Roman dry measure having a capacity of about 550 cubic inches; but in medieval English law used as an approximate translation of the word “bushel.” .
MODO ET FORMA
Lat. In manner and form. Words used in the old Latin forms of pleadings by way of traverse, and literally translated in the modern precedents, importing that the party traversing denies the allegation of the other party,...
MODUS
° minor change in the substance of the thing, withont reference to its improvement or deterioration thereby, while the latter word im-. orts an amelioration of the thing {as by changing the phraseology of an instrument,...
MOEBLE
i Fr. moebles, movable govuds.
Mohler, 51 W. Va
1, 41 S. E. 421; Oarroll v. Carroll, 11 Barb. (N. Y.) 298.
Moke vy. Barney, 5 Blatchf
274, Fed. Cas. No. 9,698.
MoL
(or MoLean). l McLean’s United States Circuit Court Reports.
Moller, 97 U. S. 365, 24 L. Ed
1046; Le Roy v. Jamison, 15 Fed. Cas. 373; Forbes Lithograph Mfg. Co. ve Worthington (C. C.) 25