Morton, 68 Fed
791, 15 C. C. A. 671; Cowan v. Mueller, 176 Mo. 192, 75 S. W. 606; Wilson v. Knox County, 132 Mo. 387,.34 S. W. 45, 477.
Terms beginning with "M" (452 total)
MORTUUM VADIUM
MORTGAGOR. He that gives a mortgage. MORTH. Sax. Murder, answering ex-
MORTUUS
or rents of the thing pledged are not applied to the payment of the debt. Lat. Dead. So in sheriffs return, mortuus est, he is dead. —Mortuns sine prole. Dead without issue. In genealogical tables often abbreviated to...
Mosher, 63 Fed
488, 11 C.'C. A. 304.
MOSYNA ARATRI, or CARUCARUM
A penny which King Ethelred ordered to be paid for every plow in England towards the support of the poor. Leg. Ethel. c. 1.
Mott v
Frost (D. C.) 47 Fed. Bie nist v. Certain Steel Rail Crop Ends wa C. ed:
Mott v. Mott, 82 Cal
418, 22 Pac. 1140; Reynolds v. U. 8., 98 U. S. 165, 25 L. Ed. 244; Maynard v. Hill, 125 U. S. 190, 8 Sup.
MOTU PROPRIO
Lat. Of his own motion. The commencing words of a certain kind of papal rescript.
MOVABLE
judgment of the court in his favor. See Sup. v. Sayre, 3 N. J. Law, 187.—Movable freehold. A term applied by Jord Coke to real property’ which is capable of being increased or diminished by natural causes; as where ...
MOVE
1. To make an application to a court for a rule or order.
Moveover
a usage is local in all cases, and must be proved; whereas, a custom is frequent] general, and as such is noticed without proof. “Usage,” in French law, is the “ueus” of Roman law, and corresponds very nearly to ...
MOVING FOR AN ARGUMENT
Making a motion on a day which is not motion day, in virtue of having argued a special case; used in the exchequer after it became obsolete in the queen’s bench. Wharton,
Moyer v. Cook, 12 Wis
336. —Salwage service. See SALVAGE.—Secular service. Worldly employment or service, as contrasted with spiritual or ecclesiastical.—Service by publication. Service of a summons or other process upon an absent or no...
Mozley & Whitley; 2 Steph. Comm
502. 250. Kirkley v. Lacey, 7 oust. (Del.) 213, 30 Atl. 994. —Feme sole trader. In English law. <A married woman, who, by the custom of London, trades on her own account, independently of her husband; 80 called becaus...
Mozley & Whitley.—Surveyor
of the port: A revenue officer of the United States appointed for each of the principal ports of entry, whose duties chiefly concern the importations at his station and the determination of their qmoune and valuation. Re...
Muir, 186 Cal
36, 68 Pac. 308; Laumier v.
MULIER
Lat. (1) A woman: (2) A virgin; (3) a wife; (4) a legitimate child. 1 Inst. 243.
MULIER PUISNE
L. Fr. When e man has a bastard son, and afterwards marries the mother, and by her has also a legitimate son, the elder son is bastard cigné, and the younger son is mulier puisné.
Mullen, 202 Ill
413, 67 N. B. 20; Bryan v. Chicago, etc., R. Co., 63 Iowa, 464, 19 N. W.
Mulligan v. U. S., 120 Fed
98, 56 C. C. A. 50; Bank of New Brunswick v. Arrowsmith, 9N. J. Law, 287; Skinner v. Grant, 12 Vt: 462; State v. Wadsworth, 30 Conn. 57.
MULTA NON VETAT LEX
MULOT. A penalty or punishment imposed on a person guilty of some offense, tort, or misdemeanor, usually a pecuniary fine or condemnation in damages. See Cook v. Marshall County, 1/9 Iowa, 384, 93 N. W. 3872, 104 Am. St....
MULTA TRANSEUNT CUM 7197
Multa transeunt coum universitate qu mon per se transeunt. Many things pass with the whole which do not pass separately.
MULTA, or MULTURA EPISCOPI
A fine or final satisfaction, anciently given to the king by the bishops, that they might have power to make their wills, and that they might have the probate of other men’s wills, and the granting of administration. 2
Mun
(or Manf.). Munford’s Virginia Reports.
MUNDBYRD, MUNDEBURDE. A re
ceiving into favor and protection. Cowell.
Mundy v. Van Hoose, 104 Ga
292, 30 S. B. 483; Hinckley v. Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel
MUNERA
MULTITUDE. An assemblage of many people. According to Coke it is not a word of very precise meaning; for some authorities hold that there must be at least ten persons to make a multitude, while others maintain that no de...
MUNICEPS
Lat. In Roman law. A _ provincial person; a countryman. This was the designation of one born in the provinces or in a city politically connected with Rome, and who, having become a Roman citizen, was entitled to hold any...
MUNIMENT-HOUSE, or MUNIMENT
ROOM. <A house or room of strength, In cathedrals, collegiate churches, castles, colleges, public buildings, etc., purposely made for keeping deeds, charters, writings, etc. 3 Inst. 170.
MUNIOIPAL CORPORATION. A pub
lic corporation, created by government for political purposes, and having subordinate and local powers of legislation; e. g., a county, town, city, etc. 2 Kent, Comm. 275.
MUNITIONS OF WAR
l an instrument, generally in the form of a bill
Munn y. Illinois, 94 U. & 145, 24 L. Ed
77. For other definitions, see Slaughterhouse Cases, 16 Wall. 62, 21 L. Ed Stone v. Mississippi, 101 U. S. v. Rutland & B. R. es
MUNUS
such as military stores of all kinds and articles of food. See U. S. v. Sheldon, 2 Lat. A gift; an office; a benefice or feud. A gladiatorial show or spectacle. Calvin.; Du Cange.
Murphy v. Bennett, 68 Cal
528, 9 Pac. 738; Morbey v. Railway Co., 116 Iowa, 84, 89 N. W. 105.—Gene and special findings. Where issues of fact in a case are submitted to: the court by consent of parties to be tried without a jury, the “finding...
Murray, 18 Johns
(N. Y.) 402; Arthur v.
Murray, 39 Mo. App
128; Moorefield v. State, 5 Lea (Tenn.) 348; Owen v. State, 31 Ala. 389, —O costs. <A verdict is said to carry costs when the party for whom the verdict is given becomes entitled to the payment of his costs as incident...
Murray, 8 Cal
520; State v. Kennedy, 88
MUSEUM
heart, regardless of human life, although without any premeditated design to effect the death of any particular individual; when done without any design to effect death, by any person engage in the commission of the crim...
MUSSA
MUSSA. In old English law. A moss or marsh ground, or a place where sedges grow; a place overrun with moss. Cowell.
Mut
L. Assur. Soc., 6 Ben. 35, 12 Fed. Cas. L. Ins. Co., 19 Tex. Civ. App. 838, 48 L. Ins. Co. v. Wilkinson, 18 Wall. 230, 20 L. Ed. 617. L. Ins. Co. v. Cornwell, 72 Hun, 199, 25 N. Y. Supp. 3848; Seeley v. Bacon (N. J.
MUTATIO NOMINIS
civil law. Change of name,
MUTATIS MUTANDIS
Lat. With the necessary changes in points of detail.
Mutchler, 187 Ind
140, 36 N. EB. §34.—County commissioners. Officers of a county cha with a variety of administrative and executive duties, but principally with the management of the financial affiairs of the county, its police bong ve...
Mutual L. Ins. Co
v. Martien, 27 Mont. 437, 71 Pac. 470; Weld v. May, 9 Cush. (Mass.) 189; In re Millward-Cliff Cracker Co.’s Estate, 161 Pa. 167, 28 Atl. 1072. —Treasurer, lord high. Formerly the chief treasurer of England, who had c...
MUTUS ET SURDUS
ing, burning, or erasure, but without totally destroying it. See Woodfill v. Patton, 76 Lat. In civil and old English law. Dumb and deaf.
MUTUUM
Lat. In the law of bailments. <A loan for consumption; a loan of chattels, upon an agreement that the borrower may consume them, returning to the lender an equivalent in kind and quantity. Story, Bailm. § 228; Payne v. ...
Myers, 5 Okl
809, 50 Pac. 70, 38 L. R. A. 687.
Myl. & EK
(or Mylne & K.). Keen’s English Ohancery Reports.
Myl. & OC
(or Or.). Mylne & Craig’s English Chancery Reports,
Myr. Prob
(Cal.). Myrick’s California