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MEASURE
That by which extent or dimension is ascertained, either length, breadth, thickness, capacity, or amount. Webster. The rule by which anything is adjusted or proportioned. -Measure of damages. The rule, or rather the system of rules, governing the adjustment or apportionment of damages as a compensation for injuries in actions More...

That by which extent or dimension is ascertained, either length, breadth, thickness, capacity, or amount. Webster. The rule by which anything is adjusted or proportioned. -Measure of damages. The rule, or rather the system of rules, governing the adjustment or apportionment of damages as a compensation for injuries in actions at law.-Measure of value. In the ordinary sense of the word, "measure" would mean something by comparison with which we may ascertain what is the value of anything. When we consider, further, that value itself is relative, and that two things are necessary to constitute it, independently of the third thing, which is to measure it, we may define a "measure of value'* to be something by comparing with which any two other things we may infer their value in relation to one another. 2 Mill, Pol. Econ. 101. Less...
MEASURER, OR METER
An officer in the city of London, who measured woolen clothes, coals, etc.

An officer in the city of London, who measured woolen clothes, coals, etc. Less...
MEASURING MONEY
In old English law. A duty which some persons exacted, by letters patent, for every piece of cloth made, besides alnage. Now abolished.

In old English law. A duty which some persons exacted, by letters patent, for every piece of cloth made, besides alnage. Now abolished. Less...
MECHANIC
A workman employed in shaping and uniting materials, such as wood, metal, etc., into some kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools. Story v. Walker, 11 Lea (Tenn.) 517, 47 Am. Rep. 305; In re Osborn (D. C.) 104 Fed. 781; Savannah & C. R. More...

A workman employed in shaping and uniting materials, such as wood, metal, etc., into some kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools. Story v. Walker, 11 Lea (Tenn.) 517, 47 Am. Rep. 305; In re Osborn (D. C.) 104 Fed. 781; Savannah & C. R. Co. v. Callahan, 49 Ga. 511; Berks County v. Bertolet, 13 Pa. 524. Less...
MECHANIC'S LIEN
A species of lien created by statute iu most of the states, which exists in favor of persons who have performed work or furnished material in and for the erection of a building. Their lien attaches to the land as well as the building, and is intended to secure for More...

A species of lien created by statute iu most of the states, which exists in favor of persons who have performed work or furnished material in and for the erection of a building. Their lien attaches to the land as well as the building, and is intended to secure for them a priority of payment The lien of a mechanic is created by law, and is Intended to be a security for the price and value of work performed and materials furnished, and as such it attaches to and exists on the land and the building erected thereon, from the commencement of the time that the labor is being performed and the materials furnished; and the mechanic has an actual and positive interest in the building anterior to the time of its recognition by the court or the reducing of the amount due to a judgment. First Nat. Bank v. Campbell, 24 Tex. Civ. App. 160, 58 S. W. 630; Carter v. Humboldt F. Ins. Co., 12 Iowa, 292; Barrows v. Baughman, 9 Mich. 217. Less...
MECHANICAL
Having relation to, or produced or accomplished by, the use of mechanism or machinery. Used chiefly in patent law. See compound terms infra. -Mechanioal equivalent. A device which may be substituted or adopted, instead of another, by any person skilled in the particular art from his knowledge of the art, More...

Having relation to, or produced or accomplished by, the use of mechanism or machinery. Used chiefly in patent law. See compound terms infra. -Mechanioal equivalent. A device which may be substituted or adopted, instead of another, by any person skilled in the particular art from his knowledge of the art, and which is competent to perform the same functions or produce the same result, without introducing an original idea or changing the general idea of means. Johnson v. Root, 13 Fed. Cas. 823; Smith v. Marshall. 22 Fed. Cas. 595; Alaska Packers' Ass'n v. Letson (C. C.) 119 Fed. 611; Jensen Can-Filling Mach. Co. v. Norton, 67 Fed. 239, 14 C. C. A. 383; Adams Electric R. Co. v. Lindell R. Co., 77 Fed. 440. 23 C C. A. 223.-Mechanical movement. A mechanism transmitting power or motion from a driving part to a part to be driven ; a combination and arrangement of mechanical parts intended for the translation or transformation of motion. Campbell Printing Press Co. v. Miehle Printing Press Co., 102 Fed. 159, 42 C. C. A. 235.-Mechanical process. See PROCESS.-Mechanical skill. As distinguished from invention or inventive capacity, this term means such skill, intelligence, ingenuity, or constructive ability in the adaptation of means to ends as would be possessed and exhibited by an ordinarily clever mechanic in the practice of his particular art or trade. See Hollister v. Benedict & B. Mfg. Co., 113 U. S. 59. 5 Sup. Ct. 717, 28 L. Ed. 901: Johnson Co. v. Pennsylvania Steel Co., 67 Fed. 942; Perfection Window Cleaner Co. v. Bos-ley. 2 Fed. 577; Stimpson v. Woodman, 10 Wall. 117, 19 L. Ed. 866. Less...
MEDERIA
In old records. A house or place where me?heglin, or mead, was made.

In old records. A house or place where me?heglin, or mead, was made. Less...
MEDFEE
In old English law. A bribe or reward; a compensatiou given in exchange, where the things exchanged were not of equal value. Cowell.

In old English law. A bribe or reward; a compensatiou given in exchange, where the things exchanged were not of equal value. Cowell. Less...
MEDIA ANNATA
In Spanish law. Half-yearly profits of land. McMullen v. Hodge, 5 Tex. 34, 79.

In Spanish law. Half-yearly profits of land. McMullen v. Hodge, 5 Tex. 34, 79. Less...
MEDIA NOX
In old English law. Midnight Ad medium noctem, at midnight Fleta, lib. 5, c. 5, I 31.

In old English law. Midnight Ad medium noctem, at midnight Fleta, lib. 5, c. 5, I 31. Less...

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