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  • MEDIAE ET INFIRMAE MANUS HOMINES
    Men of a middle and base condition. Blount
  • MEDIANUS HOMO
    A man of middle fortune.
  • MEDIATE DESCENT
    See DESCENT.
  • MEDIATE POWERS
    Those Incident to primary powers given by a principal to his agent For example, the general authority given to collect receive, and pay debts due by or to the principal is a primary power. In order to accomplish this, it is frequently required to settle accounts, adjust disputed claims, resist More...
  • MEDIATE TESTIMONY
    Secondary evidence, (q. v.)
  • MEDIATION
    Intervention; interposition; the act of a third person who interferes between two contending parties with a view to reconcile them or persuade them to adjust or settle their dispute. In international law and diplomacy, the word denotes the friendly interference of a state in the* controversies of others, for the More...
  • MEDIATOR
    One who interposes between parties at variance for the purpose of reconciling them. -Mediators of questions. In English law. Six persons authorized by statute, (27 Edw. III. St 2, c. 24.) who, upon any question arising among merchants relating to unmerchantable wool, or undue packing, etc., might, before the mayor More...
  • MEDICAL
    Pertaining, relating, or belonging to the study and practice of medicine, or the science and art of the investigation, prevention, cure, and alleviation of disease. -Medical evidence. Evidence furnished by medical men, testifying in their professional capacity as experts, or by standard treatises on medicine or surgery.-Medical jurisprudence. See JUBISPBUDENCE.
  • MEDICINE
    "The practice of medicine is a pursuit very generally known and understood, and so also is that of surgery. The former includes the application and use of medicines and drugs for the purpose of curing, mitigating, or alleviating bodily diseases, while the functions of the latter are limited to manual More...
  • MEDICINE-CHEST
    A box containing as assortment of medicines required by statute to be carried by all vessels above a certain tonnage.
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