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  • MEDIATOR
    One who interposes between parties at variance for the purpose of reconciling them. -Mediators of questions. In English law. Six persons authorized by statute, (27 Edw. III. St 2, c. 24.) who, upon any question arising among merchants relating to unmerchantable wool, or undue packing, etc., might, before the mayor More...
  • MEDICAL
    Pertaining, relating, or belonging to the study and practice of medicine, or the science and art of the investigation, prevention, cure, and alleviation of disease. -Medical evidence. Evidence furnished by medical men, testifying in their professional capacity as experts, or by standard treatises on medicine or surgery.-Medical jurisprudence. See JUBISPBUDENCE.
  • MEDICINE
    "The practice of medicine is a pursuit very generally known and understood, and so also is that of surgery. The former includes the application and use of medicines and drugs for the purpose of curing, mitigating, or alleviating bodily diseases, while the functions of the latter are limited to manual More...
  • MEDICINE-CHEST
    A box containing as assortment of medicines required by statute to be carried by all vessels above a certain tonnage.
  • MEDICO-LEGAL
    Relating to the law concerning medical questions.
  • MEDIETAS LINGUAE
    In old practice. Moiety of tongue; half-tongue. Applied to a jury impaneled in a cause consisting the one half of natives, and the other half of foreigners. See DE MEDIETATE LINGUA.
  • MEDIO ACQUIETANDO
    A judicial writ to distrain a lord for the acquitting of a mesne lord from a rent which he had acknowledged in court not to belong to him. Reg. Jur. 129.
  • MEDITATIO FUGAE
    In Scotch law. Contemplation of flight; intention to abscond. 2 Karnes, Eq. 14, 15.
  • MEDIUM TEMPUS
    In old English law. Meantime; mesne profits. Cowell.
  • MEDLETUM
    In old English law. A mixing together; a medley or melde; an affray or sudden encounter. An offense suddenly committed in an affray. The English word "medley" is preserved in the term "chance-medley." An intermeddling, without violence, in any matter of business. Spelman.
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