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  • MILLEATE, OR MILL-LEAT
    A trench to convey water to or from a mill. St 7 Jac. I. c. 19.
  • MILLED MONEY
    This term means merely coined money; and it is not necessary that it should be marked or rolled on the edges. Leach, 708.
  • MIL-REIS
    The name of a piece of money in the coinage of Portugal, and the Azores and Madeira islands. Its value at the custom-house, according as it is coined in the flrst, second, or third of the places named, is $1.12, or 83% cents, or $1.
  • MINA
    In old English law. A measure of corn or grain. Cowell; Spelman.
  • MINAGE
    A toll or duty paid for selling corn by the mina. Cowell.
  • MINARE
    In old records. To mine or dig mines. Minator, a miner. Cowell.
  • MINATOR CARUCAE
    A plowman. Cowell. Minator innocentibns qni pareit no-eentibns. 4 Coke, 45. He threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
  • MIND
    In its legal sense, "mind" means only the ability to will, to direct, to permit, or to assent In this sense, a corporation has a mind, and exerts its mind each time that it assents to the terms of a contract McDermott v. Evening Journal Ass'n, 43 N. J. Law, More...
  • MINE
    A pit or excavation in the earth, from which metallic ores or other mineral substances are taken by digging. Webster; Marvel v. Merritt 116 U. S. 11, 6 Sup. Ct. 207, 29 L. Ed. 550; Murray v. Allred, 100 Tenn. 100, 43 S. W. 355, 39 L. R. A. 249, More...
  • MINER
    One who mines; a digger for metals and other minerals. While men of scientific attainments, or of experience In the use of machinery, are to be found in this class, yet the word by which the class is designated' imports neither learning nor skill. Watson v. Lederer, 11 Colo. 577, More...
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