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  • MITTER AVANT
    L. Fr. In old practice. To put before; to present before a court; to produce in court.
  • MITTIMUS
    In English law. A writ used in sending a record or its tenor from one court to another. Thus, where a nul tiel record is pleaded in one court to the record of another court of equal or superior jurisdiction, the tenor of the record is brought Into chancery by More...
  • MIXED
    Formed by admixture or commingling; partaking of the nature, character, or legal attributes of two or more distinct kinds or classes. -Mined laws. A name sometimes given to those which concern both persons and property. -Mined questions. This phrase may mean either those which arise from the conflict of foreign More...
  • MIXTION
    The mixture or confusion of goods or chattels belonging severally to different owners, in such a way that they can no longer be separated or distinguished; as where two measures of wine belonging to different persons are poured together into the same cask.
  • MIXTUM IMPERIUM
    Lat In old English law. Mixed authority; a kind of civil power. A term applied by Lord Hale to the "power" of certain subordinate civil magistrates as distinct from "jurisdiction." Hale, Anal. 111.
  • MOB
    An assemblage of many people, acting in a violent and disorderly manner, defying the law, and committing, or threatening to commit, depredations upon property or violence to persons. Alexander v. State, 40 Tex. Cr. R. 395, 50 S. W. 716; Marshall T. Buffalo, 50 App. Div. 149, 64 N. Y. More...
  • MOBBING AND RIOTING
    In Scotch law. A general term including all those convocations of the lieges for violent and unlawful purposes, which are attended with in-Jury to the persons or property of the lieges, or terror and alarm to tbe neighborhood in which it takes place. The two phrases are usually placed together; More...
  • MOBILIA
    Lat. Movables; movable things; otherwise called "res mobiles" Mohilia non haoent sitnm. Movables have no situs or local habitation. Holmes v. Remsen, 4 Johns. (N. Y.) Ch. 472, 8 Am. Dec. 581. Mobilia soqnnntnr personam. Movables follow the [law of the! person. Story, Confl. Law, ? 378; Broom, Max. 522.
  • MOCKADOES
    A kind of cloth made in England, mentioned in St 23 Eliz. c. 9.
  • MODEL
    A pattern or representation of something to be made, A fac simile of some- thing Invented, made on a reduced scale, in compliance with the patent laws. See State v. Fox, 25 N. J. Law, 566; Montana Ore Purchasing Co. v. Boston, etc., Min Co., 27 Mont 288, 70 Pac. More...
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