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  • MONSTRUM
    A box in which relics are kept; also a muster of soldiers. CowelL
  • MONTES
    In Spanish law. Forests or woods. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit 1, c. 6, I 3L
  • MONTES PIETATIS
    Public pawnbrok-lng establishments; Institutions established by government, in some European countries, for lending small sums of money on pledges of personal property. In France they are called "monts de pitte'."
  • MONTH
    One of the divisions of a year. The space of time denoted by this term varies according as one or another of the following varieties of months is intended: Astronomical, containing one-twelfth of the time occupied by the sun in passing through the entire zodiac. Calender, civil, or solar, which More...
  • MONUMENT
    1. Anything by which the memory of a person or an event is preserved or perpetuated. A tomb where a dead body has been deposited. Mead v. Case, 33 Barb. (N. Y.) 202; In re Ogden, 25 R. I. 373, 55 Aa 933. 2. In real-property law and surveying, monuments More...
  • MONYA
    In Norman law. Moneyage. A tax or tribute of one shilling on every hearth, payable to the duke every three years, in consideration that he should not alter the coin. Hale, Com. Law, 148, and note.
  • MOOKTAR
    In Hindu law. An agent or attorney.
  • MOOKTARNAMA
    In Hindu law. A written authority constituting an agent; a power of attorney.
  • MOOR
    An officer in the Isle of Man, who summons the courts for the several sheadings. The office is similar to the English bailiff of a hundred.
  • MOORAGE
    A sum due by law or usage for mooring or fastening of ships to trees or posts at the shore, or to a wharf. Wharf Case, 3 Bland (Md.) 373.
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