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  • MEDERIA
    In old records. A house or place where me?heglin, or mead, was made.
  • MEDFEE
    In old English law. A bribe or reward; a compensatiou given in exchange, where the things exchanged were not of equal value. Cowell.
  • MEDIA ANNATA
    In Spanish law. Half-yearly profits of land. McMullen v. Hodge, 5 Tex. 34, 79.
  • MEDIA NOX
    In old English law. Midnight Ad medium noctem, at midnight Fleta, lib. 5, c. 5, I 31.
  • MEDIAE ET INFIRMAE MANUS HOMINES
    Men of a middle and base condition. Blount
  • MEDIANUS HOMO
    A man of middle fortune.
  • MEDIATE DESCENT
    See DESCENT.
  • MEDIATE POWERS
    Those Incident to primary powers given by a principal to his agent For example, the general authority given to collect receive, and pay debts due by or to the principal is a primary power. In order to accomplish this, it is frequently required to settle accounts, adjust disputed claims, resist More...
  • MEDIATE TESTIMONY
    Secondary evidence, (q. v.)
  • MEDIATION
    Intervention; interposition; the act of a third person who interferes between two contending parties with a view to reconcile them or persuade them to adjust or settle their dispute. In international law and diplomacy, the word denotes the friendly interference of a state in the* controversies of others, for the More...
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