MOLLITER MANUS IMPOSOUIT
Lat He gently laid hands upon. Formal words in the old Latin pleas in actions of trespass and assault where a defendant justified laying hands upon the plaintiff, as where it was done to keep the peace, etc. The phrase i...
Terms beginning with "M" (452 total)
Mon
(Ky.) 64. (sy.) 198; Smith v. Pendell, 19 Conn. 112, 48 Am. Dec. 146; Balch v. Johnson, 106. (T.B.). T. B. Monroe's Kentucky Reports.
Mon. Angi
t. 2, p. 56. Fresh; not salt. t. 1, p. 321.
Mon. Angl
282; Cowell. tom. 2, p. 71. 1, 682.
MONETA
MOLENDINUM. In old records. A mill Lat. Money, (g. v.)
MONETA EST JUSTUM MEDIUM
- Moneta est justum medium et mensu- Be rerum commutabilium, mam per me-+ dium monetzs fit omnium rerum conveniens et justa xstimatio. Dav. Ir. K. B. 18. Money is the just medium and measure of commutable things, for by ...
Money Cases, 112 U. 8
580, 5 Sup. Ct. 247, 28 L, Ed. 798. (4) A bounty or ‘reward paid to one who pursues and kills a bandit or outlaw and produces his head as evidence; the offer of such a reward being poouleny called “patting a price on...
MONITION
ed upon and liquidated by a jury, called “damages.” Roberts v. Nodwift, 8 Ind. 341; Mills v. Long, 58 Ala. 460.—Money had and received. In pleading. The technical designation of a form of declaration in assumpsit, ...
MONSTRANS DE DROIT
L. Fr. In English law. A showing or manifestation of right; one of the common law methods of obtaining possession or restitution from the crown, of either real or personal property. It is the proper proceeding when the r...
MONSTRANS DE FAITS
MONOPOLIUM. The sole power, right, or privilege of sale; monopoly; a monopoly. Calvin.
MONSTRANS DE FAITS. -L
Fr. In old English practice. A showing of deeds;. a species of profert. Cowell.
MONSTRAVERUNT, WRIT OF. In
English law. A writ which lies for the tenants of ancient demesne who hold by free charter, and not for those tenants who hold by copy of court roll, or by the rod, according to the custom of the manor. Fitzh. Nat.
Mont
258, 64 Pac. 669, 87 Am. St. Rep. 395; 474, 48 Pac. 753. 44.—Base coin. Debased, adulterated, or alloyed coin. Gabe v. State, 6 Ark. 540.— Base court. In English law. Any inferior court that is not of record, as a ...
Mont. Oo
L. B. Montgomery County Law Reporter, Pennsylvania.
Montanya, 112 Cal
115, 44 Pac. 345, 382 L. R.
Montesq
(or Montesq. Esprit des Lois). Montesquieu, Esprit des Lots.
Montesq. Esprit des Lois, 1
xxvil, c. 23. The safety of the people is the highest law.
Montesq. Esprit des Lois, liv
28, c. 27.—False Latin. When law proceedings were written in Latin, if a word were significant though not good Latin, yet an indictment, declaration, or fine should not be made void by it; but if the word were not Lati...
MONUMENT
1. Anything by which the memory of a person or an event is preserved or perpetuated. A tomb where a dead body has been deposited. Mead v. Case, 33 Barb. (N. Y.) 202; In re Ogden, 25 R. I. 378, 55 Atl 933. ,
Moo
Francis Moore’s English King’s Bench Reports ;—J. M. Moore’s English Common Pleas Reports;—Moody’s English Crown Cases."
Moo. A. Moore’s Reports, vol
1 Bosanquet & Puller, after page 470.
Mood
(or Moody). Crown Cases, Reserved.
Moody, 3 N. Y. 48%; Vermont Stat
18094, § 3674; Hill v. Reed, 16 Barb. (N. Y.) 287; In re California Pac. R. Co., 4 Fed. Cas. 1,060; Hobbs v. National Bank, 101 Fed, 75, 41 ©. C. A. 205.
Moon. Moon's Reports, vols
138-144 Ine diana and vols. 6-14 Indiana Appeals.
Moore v
Freeman, 50 Ohio St. 592, 35 N. KE. 502.
Moore v. Fletcher, 16 Me
65, 33. Am. Dec. 633; Whitney v. Wheeler Cotton Mills, 151 Mass. 896, 24 N. E. 774, 7 L. R. A. 613.—Mill site. In general, a parcel of land on or contiguous to eA water-course, suitable for the erection and operation o...
Moore, 111 Tenn
346, 76 S. W. 904; Bronson v. Wiman, 10 Barb. (N. Y.) 428.
Moore, 153 Ind
393, 53 N. EB. 767. 538 TL. R. A. 753. Express trusts are those which are created in express terms in the deed, writing, or will,-while implied trusts are those which, without being expressed, are deducible from the natu...
MORA
MOOKTARNAMA. In Hindu law. A written authority constituting an agent; a power of attorney. Lat. In the civil law. Delay; default; neglect; culpable delay or default. Calvin, . MORA. Sax. A moor; barren or unprofitable ...
MORAL
1. Pertaining or relating to the conscience or moral sense or to the general principles of right conduct.
MORANDZ SOLUTIONIS CAUSA
Lat. For the purpose of delaying or postponing payment or performance.
MORATUR IN LEGGE
Lat. He delays in law. The phrase describes the action of
MORBUS SONTIOCUS
Lat. In the civfl law. A sickness which rendered a man incapable of attending to business.
MORE OCOLONICO
Lat. In old pleading. In husband-like manner. Townsh. PL 198.
More particularly, to deliver
in a formal manner the defendant’s answer to the plaintiff's declaration, or to the indictment, as the: case may be. 7 . To appear as a pleader or advocate in a cause; to argue a cause in a court of justice. But this m...
Morgan v. Brundrett, 5 Barn. & Ald
289; Winsor v. Kendall, 30 Fed. Cas. 322; Buckingham vy. McLean, 13 How. 167, 14 L. Ed. 90; In re
Morgan v. Nunes, 54 Miss
310. For the distinction between “residence” and “domicile,” see DoMICILE.
Morgan, 112 U. 8S
405, 5 Sup. Ct. 241, 28
MORGANGINA, or MORGANGIVA
A gift on the morning after the wedding; dowry; the husband’s gift to his wife on the day after the wedding. Du Cange; Cowell.
Morris
6 Pet. 611, 8 L. Ed. 514; State v. Bur
Morris, 40 Ala
228; U.S. v. Henderlong (C.
Morrow, 87- Tenn
406. 11 S. W. 348, 2 J¥.. R. A. 8338: - od v. Knight, 174 N. Y. 475, 67 N. B. 65, 68 L. R. A. 87.—Franchise tax. See FRANCHISE.—Income tax. See INCOME. —Indirect taxes are those demanded in the first instance from...
MORS DICITUR
ene who demurs, because the party does. not proceed in pleading, but rests or abides upon the judgment of the court on a certain point, as to the legal sufficiency of his opponent's pleading. The court deliberate and det...
MORS OMNIA SOLVIT 7938
Mors omnia solvit. Death dissolves all things. Jenk. Cent. p. 160, case 2. Applied to the case of the death of a party to an action. :
Morse v. Setbold, 147 Il
318. 35 N. E. 369; Babb vy. Sullivan, 43 S. C. 436, 21 S. E. 277; Graff v. Portland, etc., Co., 12 Colo. App. 106, 54 Pac. 854; Coorzaw Min. Co. y. Caro- *‘ lina Min. Co. (C. C.) 75 Fed. 868: Parker v.
MORSELLUM, or MORSELLUS, TER
RZ. In old English law. A small parcel or bit of land.
MORTGAGE
gation, whatever form the transaction may take, but is not now regarded as a conveyance in effect, though it may be cast in the form of a conveyance. See Muth v. Goddard, 28 Mont. 237, 72 Pac. 621, 98 Am. St. Rep. 553; J...
Mortgage Co
v. Pace, 28 Tex. ere 36 S. W. 377; Reynolds v. Diaisell R. Lt 1 tl. 43: Ward v. Waterman, 85 Jermyn v. McClure, 195 Py Winston v. Burnell, 44 Kan. . St. Rep. 2809 ; Spencer v. Colt. 89 Pa. 318; “People Vv. Wreden, 59
Mortgage, etc
2 Bl. Comm. 298, 295, 309.
MORTIS CAUSA
Lat. By reason of death ; in contemplation of death. Thus used in the phrase “Donatio mortis causa,” (gq. ¥.)