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  • MISBEHAVIOR
    Ill conduct; improper or unlawful behavior. Verdicts are sometimes set aside on the ground of misbehavior of Jurors. Smith v. Cutler, 10 Wend. (N. Y.) 590, 25 Am. Dec. 580; Turnbull v. Martin, 2 Daly (N. Y.) 430; State v. Arnold, 100 Tenn. 307, 47 S. W. 221.
  • MISCARRIAGE
    In medical jurisprudence. The expulsion of the ovum or embyro from the uterus within the flrst six weeks after conception. Between that time, and before the expiration of the sixth month, when the child may possibly live, it is termed "abortion." When the delivery takes place soon after the sixth More...
  • MISCEGENATION
    Mixture of races; marriage between persons of different races; as between a white person and a negro.
  • MISCHARGE
    An erroneous charge; a charge, given by a court fo a Jury, which involves errors for which the Judgment may be reversed.
  • MISCHIEF
    In legislative parlance, the word is often used to signify the evil or danger which a statute is intended to cure or avoid. In the phrase "malicious mischief," (which see,) it Imports a wanton or reckless injury to persons or property.
  • MISCOGNIZANT
    Ignorant; uninformed. The word is obsolete.
  • MISCONDUCT
    Any unlawful conduct on the part of a person concerned in the administration of justice which is prejudicial to the rights of parties or to the right determination of the cause; as "misconduct of Jurors," "misconduct of an arbitrator." The term Is also used to express a dereliction from duty, More...
  • MISCONTINUANCE
    In practice. An improper continuance; want of proper form in a continuance; the same with "discontinuance." Cowell.
  • MISCREANT
    In old English law. An apostate; an unbeliever; one who totally renounced Christianity. 4 Bl. Comm. 44.
  • MISDATE
    A false or erroneous date affixed to a paper or document.
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