Meitzler, 23 Pa
156. Distinguished from such books as a ledger, into which entries are posted from the book of original entries.—Book of rates. An account or enumeration of the duties or tariffs authorized by parliament. 1 BI.
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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.
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 royal household. Verbal message...
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 authorities and functions, the fund...
Mill, Comst
(8. C.). Mill’s South Carolina Constitutional Reports.
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.
MINORA REGALIA
MINORA REGALIA. In English law. The lesser prerogatives of the crown, including the rights of the revenue. 1 Bl. Comm. 241.
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.
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
Moo
Francis Moore’s English King’s Bench Reports ;—J. M. Moore’s English Common Pleas Reports;—Moody’s English Crown Cases."
Mood
(or Moody). Crown Cases, Reserved.
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
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,
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
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.
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 vege and its corporate business....
N. C. 496; Hopkins v. Holt, 9 Wis
230.— Note of protest. A memorandum of the fact of protest, indorsed by the notary upon the bill, at the time, to be afterwards written out at length—Note or memorandum. The statute of frauds requires a “note or memorandum” of the particular ...
N. EB
115; In re Jones, 28 Misc. Rep. 356, 5o N. Y. Supp. 983; Attorney General v. 118, 56 L. BR. A. 855. sat pote EB Ti ‘officer, A member of the legislative body or dertment of a state or municipal corporation. Bee Prosecuting Attorney v. Judge of Rec...
N. H. 25, 22 Am. Rep
408; Bunting v. Speek, 41 Kan. 424, 21 Pac. 28383, 3 L. R. A. 690.— Vested legacy. A legacy is said to be vested when the words of the testator making the bequest convey a transmissible interest, whether present or future, to the legatee in the leg...
NAMIUM. IL
Lat. In old English law. A taking; a distress. Spelman. Things, goods, or animals taken by way of distress. Simplex namium, a simple taking or pledge.
NATURALE EST QUIDLIBET
laws” because a knowledge of them may be attained merely by the light of reason, from the fact of their essential agreeableness with the constitution of human nature; while, on the contrary, positive or revealed laws are not founded upon the genera...
NE LUMINIBUS OFFICIATUR
Lat. In the civil law. The name of a servitude which restrains the owner of a house from making such erections as obstruct the light of the adjoining house. Dig. 8, 4, 15, 17.
NETHER HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
A name given to the English house of commons in the time of Henry VIII.
NOMOCANON
(1) A collection of canons and imperial laws relative or conformable thereto. The-first nomocanon was made by Johannes Scholasticus in 554. Photius, patriarch of Constantinople, in 888, compiled another nomocanon, or collation of the civil laws with ...
NON ASSUMPSIT INFRA SEX AN
NOS. He did not undertake within six years. The name of the plea of the statute of limitations, in the action of aseumpstt.
NON EST INVENTUS
Lat. He is not found.. The sheriff’s return to process requiring him to arrest the body of the de fendant, when the latter is not found within his jurisdiction. It is often abbreviated ‘‘n. e. 4,” or written, in English, “not found.”
NON INTROMITTENDO
exempted from the jurisdiction of the justices of the peace for the county.
NON MEROHANDIZANDA VICTU
ALIA. An ancient writ addressed to justices of assize, to inquire whether the magistrates of a town sold victuals in gross or by retail during the time of their being in office, which was contrary to an obsolete statute; and to punish them if they di...
NON OMNE DAMNUM
the writ by reason of any liberty, because there are many liberties or districts in which the sheriff has no power to execute process unless he has special authority. 2 Steph.