Category: M

That which can be changed in place, as movable property; or in time, aa movable feasts or terms of court See wood v. George, 6 Dana (Ky.) 343; Strong v. white, 19 Conn. 245; Goddard v. winchell. 86 Iowa, 71, 52 N. W. 1124, 17 L. R. A. 788, 41 Am. St. Rep. 481

By statute In some states, the mouth of a river or creek, which empties in-to another river or creek, is defined as the point where the middle of the channel of each Intersects the other. Pol. Code Cal. 1903, S 3908; Rev. St. Ariz. 1901, par. 931

The dress or apparel worn by mourners at a funeral and’for a time aft-erwards. Also the expenses paid for such apparel

Lat. of his own motion. The commencing words of a certain kind of papal rescript

The inducement, cause, or reason why a thing is done. An act legal ln itself, and which violates no right, is not actionable on account of the motive which actuated lt. Chatfield v. wilson, 5 Am. Law Reg. (O. S.) 528

In praotice. An occasional application to a court by the parties or their counsel, in order to obtain some rule or order, which becomes necessary either ln the progress of a cause, or summarily and whol-ly unconnected with plenary proceedings. Citizens* SL R. Co. v. Reed, 28 Ind. App. 629, 63 N. E. 770; Low […]

A customary servlce or pay-ment at the mote or court of the lord, from which some were exempted by charter or privilege. Cowell

Sax. A meeting; an assembly. Used in composition, as burgmote, folkmote, etc

In Spanish law. Stray-ed goods; estrays, white, New Recop. b. 2, tit 2, c. 6

Lat Dead. So in sheriff’s return, mortwu est, be is dead

A dead pledge; a mortgage, (q. v,;) a pledge where the profits

Tables for estimating the probable duration of the life of a party at a given age. Gallagher v. Mar* ket St. Ry. Co., 67 Cal. 16, 6 Pac. 871, 51 Am. Rep. 680

In ecclesiastical law. ? burial-place. A kind of ecclesiastical heriot, being a customary gift of the second best living animal belonging to the deceased, claimed by and due to the

A term applied to denote the alienation of lands or tenements to any corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal. These purchases havlng been chiefly made hy rellglous houses, ln consequence of which lands became perpetually inherent in one dead hand, this has occasioned the general appellation of “mortmain” to be applled to such alienations. […]

Murder. CoweU

A murderer. Cowell

He that gives a mortgage

He that takes or receives a mortgage

An estate created by a conveyance absolute ln lts form, hut intended to secure the performance of some act, such as the payment of money, and the like, by the grantor or some other person, and to become void lf the act is performed agreeably to the terms prescribed at the time of making such […]

Thls word> in its ordi’ nary sense, never means violent death, but death arising from natural causes. Law* rence v. Aherdein, 5 Barn. & Ald. 110

In French law. Civil death, as upon conviction for felony. It was nominally abollshed by a law of the 31st of May, 1854, but something very similar to it, in effect at least, still remains. Thus, the property of the condemned, possessed by him at the date of his conviction, goes and belongs to his […]

ELLUS, TER-RJE. In old English law. A small parcel or bit bf land

Lat Death

A social and rellglous system prevailing ln the territory of Utah, a distinctive feature of which ls the practlce of polygamy. These plural marriages are not recognized by law, hut are indictable offenses under the statutes of the Unlted States and of Utah

A place where the bodies of persons found dead are kept for a limited time and exposed to view, to the end that their friends may identify them

Anglo-Dutch. In old New York law. A measure of land, equal te about two acres

or MORGANGIVA

See Ma

Thls phrase, Inserted in a conveyance of land lmmediately after the statement of the quantity of land con-veyed, means that such statement is not to be taken as a warranty of the quantity, but only an approximate estimate, and that the tract or parcel described is to pass, without regard to ah excess or deficiency […]

Lat In old plead-ing. In husband-llke manner. Townsh. PL 198

Lat In the clv-11 law. A sickness which rendered a man Incapable of attendlng to business

Lat. He delays in law. The phrase describes the action of

1. Pertaining or relating to the conscience or moral sense or to the general principles of right conduct

RA. Sax. A moor; barren or nn-profltable ground; marsh; a heath; a wa-tery bog or moor. Co. Lltt 5; Fleta, L 2, c. 71

Lat. In the civil lnw. Delay; default; neglect; culpable delay or default Calvin

The exercise of arguing questions of law or equity, raised for the purpose. See Moot

In old English law. A pack of dogs. Cowell

A sum due by law or usage for mooring or fastening of ships to trees or posts at the shore, or to a wharf, wharf Case, 3 Bland (Md.) 373

An officer in the Isle of Man, who summons the courts for the several sheadings. The office ls similar to the English bailiff of a hundred

In Hlndu law. A wrltten authority constituting an agent; a power of attorney

In Hlndu law. An agent or attorney

In Norman law. Moneyage. A tax or tribute of one shilling on every hearth, payable to the duke every three years, ln consideration that he should not alter the coln. Hale, Com. Law, 148, and note

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. 373, 55 Att 933

In Spanish law. Forests or woods, white, New Recop. b. 2, tit 1, c. 6, I 1

A box in which relics are kept; also a muster of soldiers. Cow’ell

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A prodigious birth; a hu-man birth or offspring not havlng the shape of mankind, which cannot be heir to any land, albeit lt be brought forth in marriage. Bract fol. 5; Co. Lltt 7, 8; 2 BL Comm. 246

In commercial law. A privilege or pecullar advantage vested ln one or more persons or companies, consisting in the exclusive right (or power) to carry on a partlcular buslness or trade, manufacture & partlcular. article, or control the sale of the whole supply of a partlcular commodity