Legal Term Dictionary

In old records. The impost of England upon merchandise. Cowell Morels apellatio ad res mobiles tarn-turn pertinet. The term "merchandise" .belongs to movable things only. Dig. 50, 1$ 66. Morels appellations Homines non eon* tinerl. Men are not Included under the denomination of "merchandise." Dig. 50, 16, 207.

In old records. The impost of England upon merchandise. Cowell Morels apellatio ad res mobiles tarn-turn pertinet. The term "merchandise" .belongs to movable things only. Dig. 50, 1$ 66. Morels appellations Homines non eon* tinerl. Men are not Included under the denomination of "merchandise." Dig. 50, 16, 207. Less...

In practice. The arbitrament of the king or Judge in punishing offenses not directly censured by law. Jacob. So, "to be in mercy" signifies to be amerced or fined for bringing or defending an unjust suit, or to be liable to punishment In the discretion of the court In criminal More...

In practice. The arbitrament of the king or Judge in punishing offenses not directly censured by law. Jacob. So, "to be in mercy" signifies to be amerced or fined for bringing or defending an unjust suit, or to be liable to punishment In the discretion of the court In criminal law. The discretion of a judge, within tbe limits prescribed by. positive law, to remit altogether the punishment to which a convicted person is liable, or to mitigate the severity of his sentence; as when a jury recommends the prisoner to the mercy of the court. Less...

Sax. A marsh. Spelman.

Sax. A marsh. Spelman. Less...

L. Fr. Mother. /Ele, mere, fitle, grandmother, mother, daughter. Britt c 89. Bit ventre sa mere, in its mother's womb.

L. Fr. Mother. /Ele, mere, fitle, grandmother, mother, daughter. Britt c 89. Bit ventre sa mere, in its mother's womb. Less...

The free and voluntary act of a party himself, done without the suggestion or influence of another person, is said to be done of his mere motion, ea mero motu, (g. v.) Brown. The phrase Is used of an interference of the courts of law, who will, under some circumstances, More...

The free and voluntary act of a party himself, done without the suggestion or influence of another person, is said to be done of his mere motion, ea mero motu, (g. v.) Brown. The phrase Is used of an interference of the courts of law, who will, under some circumstances, of their own motion, object to an irregularity in the proceedings, though no objection has been taken to the informality by the plaintiff or defendant in the suit. 3 Chit. Gen. Pr. 430. Less...

The mere right of property in land; the jus proprietatis, without either possession or even the right of possession. 2 Bl. Comm. 197. The abstract right of property.

The mere right of property in land; the jus proprietatis, without either possession or even the right of possession. 2 Bl. Comm. 197. The abstract right of property. Less...

In old English law. A stone for bounding or dividing lands. Yearb. P. 18 Hen. VI. 5.

In old English law. A stone for bounding or dividing lands. Yearb. P. 18 Hen. VI. 5. Less...

In old records. Timber. Cowell.

In old records. Timber. Cowell. Less...

Of tbe nature of unlawful sexual connection. The term is descriptive of the relation sustained oy persons who contract a marriage that is void by reason of legal incapacity. 1 Bl. Comm. 436.

Of tbe nature of unlawful sexual connection. The term is descriptive of the relation sustained oy persons who contract a marriage that is void by reason of legal incapacity. 1 Bl. Comm. 436. Less...

The fusion or absorption of one thing or right into another; generally spoken of a case where one of the subjects is of less dignity or importance than the other. Here the less important ceases to have an Independent existence. In real-property law. It is a general principle of law More...

The fusion or absorption of one thing or right into another; generally spoken of a case where one of the subjects is of less dignity or importance than the other. Here the less important ceases to have an Independent existence. In real-property law. It is a general principle of law that where a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one and the same person, without any Intermediate estate, the less is immediately annihilated, , or, in the law phrase, is said to be merged, that is, sunk or drowned, in the greater. Thus, if there be tenant for years, and the reversion in fee-simple descends to or Is purchased by him, the term of years Is merged in the inheritance, and shall never exist any more. 2 Bl. Comm. 177; 1 Steph. Comm. 293 ; 4 Kent, Comm. 99. James v. Morey, 2 Cow. (N. Y.) 300, 14 Am. Dec. 476; Duncan v. Smith, 31 N. J. Law, 327. Of rights. This term, as applied to rights, is equivalent to "confusio" in the Roman law, and indicates that where the qualities of debtor and creditor become united in the same individual, there arises a confusion of rights which extinguishes both qualities; whence, also, merger is often called "extinguishment." Brown. Rights of action. In the law relating to rights of action, when a person takes or acquires a remedy or security of a higher nature, in legal estimation, than the one which he already possesses for the same right, then his remedies in respect of the minor right or security merge in those attaching to the higher one. Leake, Cont. 506; 10 O. B. 561. As where a claim is merged in the Judgment recovered upon it. In criminal law. When a man commits a great crime which Includes a lesser, or commits a felony which includes a tort against a private person, the latter is merged in the former. 1 East, P. C. 411. Of corporations. A merger of corporations consist in the uniting of two or more corporations by the transfer of property of all to one of them, which continues in existence, the others being swallowed up or merged therein. In regard to the survivorship of one of the constituent corporations. It differs from a "consolidation," wherein all the consolidating companies surrender their separate existence and become parts of a new corporation. Adams v. Yazoo & M. V. R. Co., 77 Miss. 194, 24 South. 200, 60 L. R. A. 33; Vicksburg A Y. C. Tel. Co. v. Citizens' Tel. Co., 79 Miss. 341, 30 South. 725, 89 Am. St. Rep. 656. Less...