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  • MEDICO-LEGAL
    Relating to the law concerning medical questions.
  • MEDIETAS LINGUAE
    In old practice. Moiety of tongue; half-tongue. Applied to a jury impaneled in a cause consisting the one half of natives, and the other half of foreigners. See DE MEDIETATE LINGUA.
  • MEDIO ACQUIETANDO
    A judicial writ to distrain a lord for the acquitting of a mesne lord from a rent which he had acknowledged in court not to belong to him. Reg. Jur. 129.
  • MEDITATIO FUGAE
    In Scotch law. Contemplation of flight; intention to abscond. 2 Karnes, Eq. 14, 15.
  • MEDIUM TEMPUS
    In old English law. Meantime; mesne profits. Cowell.
  • MEDLETUM
    In old English law. A mixing together; a medley or melde; an affray or sudden encounter. An offense suddenly committed in an affray. The English word "medley" is preserved in the term "chance-medley." An intermeddling, without violence, in any matter of business. Spelman.
  • MEDLEY
    An affray; a sudden or casual fighting; a hand to hand battle; a me'le'e. See CHANCE-MEDLEY; CHAUD-MEDLEY.
  • MEDSCEAT
    In old English law. A bribe; hush money.
  • MEDSYPP
    A harvest supper or entertainment given to laborers at harvest-home. Cowell.
  • MEETING
    A coming together of persons ; an assembly. Particularly, in law, an assembling of a number of persons for the purpose of discussing and acting upon some matter or matters in which they have a common interest -Called meeting;. In the law of corporations, a meeting not held at a More...
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