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  • MISUSER
    Abuse of an office or franchise. 2 Bl. Comm. 153.
  • MITIGATION
    Alleviation; abatement or diminution of a penalty or punishment imposed by law. "Mitigating circumstances" are such as do not constitute a justification or excuse of the offense in question, but which, in fairness and mercy, may be considered as extenuating or reducing the degree of moral culpability. See Heaton v. More...
  • MITIOR SENSUS
    Lat. The more favorable acceptation. Ml tin* imperanti melius paretur. The more mildly one commands, the better is he obeyed. 3 Inst. 24.
  • MITOYENNETE
    In French law. The Joint ownership of two neighbors in a wall, ditch, or hedge which separates their estates.
  • MITTENDO MANUSCRIPTUM PEDIS FINIS
    An abolished judicial writ addressed to the treasurer and chamberlain of the exchequer to search for and transmit the foot of a fine acknowledged before justices in eyre into the common pleas. Reg. Orig. 14.
  • MITTER
    L. Fr. To put, to send, or to pass; as, mitter Vestate, to pass the estate; mitter le droit, to pass a right. These words are used to distinguish different kinds of releases.
  • MITTER AVANT
    L. Fr. In old practice. To put before; to present before a court; to produce in court.
  • MITTIMUS
    In English law. A writ used in sending a record or its tenor from one court to another. Thus, where a nul tiel record is pleaded in one court to the record of another court of equal or superior jurisdiction, the tenor of the record is brought Into chancery by More...
  • MIXED
    Formed by admixture or commingling; partaking of the nature, character, or legal attributes of two or more distinct kinds or classes. -Mined laws. A name sometimes given to those which concern both persons and property. -Mined questions. This phrase may mean either those which arise from the conflict of foreign More...
  • MIXTION
    The mixture or confusion of goods or chattels belonging severally to different owners, in such a way that they can no longer be separated or distinguished; as where two measures of wine belonging to different persons are poured together into the same cask.
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