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  • MICHEL-GEMOT
    One of the names of the general council Immemorially held in England. The Witenaoemote. One of the great councils of king and noblemen in Saxon times. Jacob.
  • MICHEL-SYNOTH
    Great council. One of the names of the general council of the kingdom in the times of the Saxons. 1 Bl. Comm. 147.
  • MICHERY
    In old English law. Theft; cheating.
  • MIDDLE TERM
    A phrase nsed in logic to denote the term which occurs in both' of the premises In the syllogism, being the means of bringing together tbe two terms in the conclusion.
  • MIDDLE THREAD
    The middle thread of a stream is an imaginary line drawn lengthwise through the middle of its current.
  • MIDDLEMAN
    An agent between two; parties, an intermediary who performs the office of a broker or factor between seller and buyer, producer and consumer, land-owner and tenant, etc Southack v. Lane, 32 Misc. Rep. 141, 65 N. Y. Supp. 629; Synnott v. Shaughnessy, 2 Idaho, 122, 7 Pac. 89. A middleman, More...
  • MIDDLESEX, BILL OF
    See BILL.
  • MIDSHIPMAN
    In ships of war, a kind of naval cadet whose business is to second or transmit the orders of the superior officer* and assist in the necessary business of the vessel, but understood to be in training for a commission. A passed midshipman is one who has passed an examination More...
  • MIDSUMMER-DAY
    The summer solstice, which is on the 24th day of June, and the feast of St John the Baptist, a festival first mentioned by Maxlmus Tauricensis, A. D. 400. It Is generally a quarter-day for the payment of rents, etc Wharton.
  • MIDWIFE
    In medical jurisprudence. A woman who .practices midwifery; an accoucheuse.
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