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  • MISCHIEF
    In legislative parlance, the word is often used to signify the evil or danger which a statute is intended to cure or avoid. In the phrase "malicious mischief," (which see,) it Imports a wanton or reckless injury to persons or property.
  • MISCOGNIZANT
    Ignorant; uninformed. The word is obsolete.
  • MISCONDUCT
    Any unlawful conduct on the part of a person concerned in the administration of justice which is prejudicial to the rights of parties or to the right determination of the cause; as "misconduct of Jurors," "misconduct of an arbitrator." The term Is also used to express a dereliction from duty, More...
  • MISCONTINUANCE
    In practice. An improper continuance; want of proper form in a continuance; the same with "discontinuance." Cowell.
  • MISCREANT
    In old English law. An apostate; an unbeliever; one who totally renounced Christianity. 4 Bl. Comm. 44.
  • MISDATE
    A false or erroneous date affixed to a paper or document.
  • MISDELIVERY
    The delivery of property by a carrier or warehouseman to a person not authorized by the owner or person to whom the carrier or warehouseman is bound by his contract to deliver it. Cleveland, etc., R. Co. v. Potts, 33 Ind. App. 564, 71 N. E. 689; Forbes v. Boston More...
  • MISDEMEANANT
    A person guilty of a misdemeanor; one sentenced to punishment upon conviction of a misdemeanor. See FIRST-CLASS MISDEMEANANT.
  • MISDEMEANOR
    In criminal law. A general name for criminal offenses of every sort, punishable by indictment or special proceedings, which do not in law amount to the grade of felony. A misdemeanor1 is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law either forbidding or commanding it. This general More...
  • MISDESCRIPTION
    An error or falsity In the description of the subject-matter of a contract which deceives one of the parties to his injury, or is misleading In a material or substantial point.
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