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  • MULTA, OR MULTURA EPISCOPL
    A fine or final satisfaction, anciently given to the king by the bishops, that they might have power to make their wills, and that they might have the probate of other men's wills, and the granting of administration. 2 Inst 291. Malta ndem promissa levant. Many promises lessen confidence. Brown More...
  • MULTIFARIOUSNESS
    In eqnity pleading. The fault of improperly joining in one bill distinct and independent matters, and thereby confounding them; as, for example, the uniting in one bill of several matters perfectly distinct and unconnected against one defendant or the demand of several matters of a distinct and independent nature against More...
  • MULTIPARTITE
    Divided into many or several parts.
  • MULTIPLE POINDING
    In Scotch law. Double distress; a name given to an action, corresponding to proceedings by way of interpleader, which may be brought by a person in possession of goods claimed by different persons pretending a right thereto, calling the claimants and all others to settle their claims, so that the More...
  • MULTIPLICITY
    A state of being many. That quality of a pleading which involves a variety of matters or particulars; undue variety. 2 Saund. 410. A multiplying or increasing. Story. Eq. PI. f 287. -Multiplicity of actions. A phrase descriptive of the state of affairs where several different suits or actions are More...
  • MULTITUDE
    An assemblage of many people. According to Coke it is not a word of very precise meaning; for some authorities hold that there must be at least ten persons to make a multitude, while others maintain that no definite number is fixed by law. Co. Litt. 257. Multitudinem decern facinnt. More...
  • MULTO
    In old records. A wether sheep. Multo utillus est panca idonea efifun-dero qnam multis inutillbus homines gravarl. 4 Coke, 20. It is more useful to pour forth a few useful things than to oppress men with many useless things.
  • MULTURE
    In Scotch law. The quantity of grain or meal payable to the proprietor of a mill, or to the multurer, his tacksman, for manufacturing the corns. Ersk. Inst 2, 9, 19.
  • MUMMIFICATION
    In medical jurisprudence. A term applied to the complete drying up of the body. It is the result o burial in a dry, hot soil, or the exposure of the body to a continuously cold and dry atmosphere. 15 Amer. & Eng. Enc. Law, 261.
  • MUMMING
    Antic diversions in the Christmas holidays, suppressed in Queen Anne's time.
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