Legal Term Dictionary

An infant or person who is under the age of legal competence. A term derived from the civil law, which described a person under a certain age as less than so many years. Minor viginti quinque annis, one less than twenty-five years of age. Inst 1, 14, 2. Also, less; More...

An infant or person who is under the age of legal competence. A term derived from the civil law, which described a person under a certain age as less than so many years. Minor viginti quinque annis, one less than twenty-five years of age. Inst 1, 14, 2. Also, less; of less consideration; lower; a person of inferior condition. Fleta, 2, 47. 13, 15; Calvin. -Minor sstas. Lat Minority or infancy. Cro. Car. 516. Literally, lesser age.-Minor fact. In the law of evidence. A relative, collateral, or subordinate fact; a circumstance. Wills, Circ Ev. 27; Burrill, Circ. Ev. p. 121, note, 582. Minor ante tempus agere non potest in oasu proprietatis nee etiam conve-nlre; differetur usque sstatem; sed non oadit breve. 2 Inst 29L A minor before majority cannot act in a case of property, nor even agree; it should be deferred until majority; but the writ does not fail. Minor juraro non potest. A minor cannot make oath. Co. Litt 172b. An Infant cannot be sworn on a Jury. Litt 289. Minor minorem oustodiro non. debet, alios enim prsBSumitnr male regere qui seipsum regere neseit. A minor ought not to be guardian to a minor, for he who knows not how to govern himself Is presumed to be unfit to govern others. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 10; Co. Litt 885. Minor non tenetnr respondere durante minor! estate, nisi in eansa dotis, propter farorem. 8 Bulst 143. A minor is not bound to reply during his minority, except as a matter of favor in a cause of dower. Minor qui infra sstatem 12 annornm fnerit ultagari non potest, nee extra le* gem poni, quia ante talent sstatem, non est sub lege aliqua, nee in deeenna. Co. Litt. 128. A minor who is under twelve years of age cannot be outlawed, nor placed without the law, because before such age he is not under any law, nor in a decennary. Minor septemdeeim annis nom admit-titnr fore eneeutorom. A person under seventeen years is not admitted to be an executor. 6 Coke, 67. A rule of ecclesiastical law. Less...

In Engli&h law. The lesser prerogatives of the crown, including the rights of the revenue. 1 Bl. Comm. 241.

In Engli&h law. The lesser prerogatives of the crown, including the rights of the revenue. 1 Bl. Comm. 241. Less...

The state or condition of a minor; infancy. The smaller number of votes of a deliberative assembly; opposed to majority, (which see.)

The state or condition of a minor; infancy. The smaller number of votes of a deliberative assembly; opposed to majority, (which see.) Less...

The place designated by law where bullion is coined into money under authority of the government. Also a place of privilege in Southwark, near the king's prison, where persons formerly sheltered themselves from justice under the pretext that it was an ancient palace of the crown. The privilege is now More...

The place designated by law where bullion is coined into money under authority of the government. Also a place of privilege in Southwark, near the king's prison, where persons formerly sheltered themselves from justice under the pretext that it was an ancient palace of the crown. The privilege is now abolished. Wharton. -Mint-mark. The masters and workers of the English mint, in the indentures made with them, agree "to make a privy mark in the money they make, of gold and silver, so that they may know which moneys were of their own making." After every trial of the pix, having proved their moneys to be lawful, they are entitled to their quietus under the great seal, and to be discharged from all suits or actions. Wharton. -Mint-master. One who manages the coinage. Less...

The charge or commission taken by the mint as a consideration for coining into money the bullion which is brought to it for that purpose; the same as "seigniorage." Also that which is coined or stamped as money; the product of the mint.

The charge or commission taken by the mint as a consideration for coining into money the bullion which is brought to it for that purpose; the same as "seigniorage." Also that which is coined or stamped as money; the product of the mint. Less...

Lat In the civil law. Less; less than. The word had also, In some connections, the sense of "not at all." For example, a debt remaining wholly unpaid was described as "minus solutum" Minns solvit, qui tardius solvit. He does not pay who pays too late. Dig. 50, 16> 12, More...

Lat In the civil law. Less; less than. The word had also, In some connections, the sense of "not at all." For example, a debt remaining wholly unpaid was described as "minus solutum" Minns solvit, qui tardius solvit. He does not pay who pays too late. Dig. 50, 16> 12, 1. Less...

In measures of time or circumference, a minute is the sixtieth part of an hour or degree. In praetiee. A memorandum of what takes place in court, made by authority of the court. Moore v. State, 8 Heisk. (Tenn.) 509. -Minute-book. A book kept by the clerk or prothonotary of More...

In measures of time or circumference, a minute is the sixtieth part of an hour or degree. In praetiee. A memorandum of what takes place in court, made by authority of the court. Moore v. State, 8 Heisk. (Tenn.) 509. -Minute-book. A book kept by the clerk or prothonotary of a court for entering memoranda of its proceedings. Less...

In Sooteb praetiee. A pleading put into writing before the lord ordinary, as the ground of his judgment. Bell. In business law. Memoranda or notes of a transaction or proceeding. Thus, the record of the proceedings at a meeting of directors or shareholders of a company is called the "minutes."

In Sooteb praetiee. A pleading put into writing before the lord ordinary, as the ground of his judgment. Bell. In business law. Memoranda or notes of a transaction or proceeding. Thus, the record of the proceedings at a meeting of directors or shareholders of a company is called the "minutes." Less...

Lat. In the civil law. A lessening; diminution or reduction. Dig. 4, 5, L

Lat. In the civil law. A lessening; diminution or reduction. Dig. 4, 5, L Less...

The Mirror of Justice, or of the Justices, commonly spoken of as the "Mirror," is an ancient treatise on the laws of England, written during the reign of Edward II., and attributed to one Andrew Home.

The Mirror of Justice, or of the Justices, commonly spoken of as the "Mirror," is an ancient treatise on the laws of England, written during the reign of Edward II., and attributed to one Andrew Home. Less...