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  • METUS
    Lat Fear; terror. In a technical sense, a reasonable and well-grounded apprehension of some great evil, such as death or mayhem, and not arising out of mere timidity, but such as might fall upon a man of courage. Fear must be of this description In order to amount to duress More...
  • MEUBLES
    In French law. The movables of English law. Things are meubles from either of two causes: (1) From their own nature, e. p., tables, chairs; or (2) from the determination of the law, e. g.t obligations. -Menbles jnenblans. In French law. The utensils and articles of ornament usual in a More...
  • MICHAELMAS
    The feast of the Arch-angel Michael, celebrated in England on the 29th of September, and one of the usual quarter days. -Miehaelmas bead eonrt. A meeting of the heritors of Scotland, at which the roll of freeholders used to be revised. See BelL-Michaelmas term. One of the four terms of More...
  • MICHE, OR MICH
    O. Eng. ' To practice crimes requiring concealment or secrecy; to pilfer articles secretly. Micher, one who practices secret crime. Webster.
  • MICHEL-GEMOT
    One of the names of the general council Immemorially held in England. The Witenaoemote. One of the great councils of king and noblemen in Saxon times. Jacob.
  • MICHEL-SYNOTH
    Great council. One of the names of the general council of the kingdom in the times of the Saxons. 1 Bl. Comm. 147.
  • MICHERY
    In old English law. Theft; cheating.
  • MIDDLE TERM
    A phrase nsed in logic to denote the term which occurs in both' of the premises In the syllogism, being the means of bringing together tbe two terms in the conclusion.
  • MIDDLE THREAD
    The middle thread of a stream is an imaginary line drawn lengthwise through the middle of its current.
  • MIDDLEMAN
    An agent between two; parties, an intermediary who performs the office of a broker or factor between seller and buyer, producer and consumer, land-owner and tenant, etc Southack v. Lane, 32 Misc. Rep. 141, 65 N. Y. Supp. 629; Synnott v. Shaughnessy, 2 Idaho, 122, 7 Pac. 89. A middleman, More...
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