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  • MIXTUM IMPERIUM
    Lat In old English law. Mixed authority; a kind of civil power. A term applied by Lord Hale to the "power" of certain subordinate civil magistrates as distinct from "jurisdiction." Hale, Anal. 111.
  • MOB
    An assemblage of many people, acting in a violent and disorderly manner, defying the law, and committing, or threatening to commit, depredations upon property or violence to persons. Alexander v. State, 40 Tex. Cr. R. 395, 50 S. W. 716; Marshall T. Buffalo, 50 App. Div. 149, 64 N. Y. More...
  • MOBBING AND RIOTING
    In Scotch law. A general term including all those convocations of the lieges for violent and unlawful purposes, which are attended with in-Jury to the persons or property of the lieges, or terror and alarm to tbe neighborhood in which it takes place. The two phrases are usually placed together; More...
  • MOBILIA
    Lat. Movables; movable things; otherwise called "res mobiles" Mohilia non haoent sitnm. Movables have no situs or local habitation. Holmes v. Remsen, 4 Johns. (N. Y.) Ch. 472, 8 Am. Dec. 581. Mobilia soqnnntnr personam. Movables follow the [law of the! person. Story, Confl. Law, ? 378; Broom, Max. 522.
  • MOCKADOES
    A kind of cloth made in England, mentioned in St 23 Eliz. c. 9.
  • MODEL
    A pattern or representation of something to be made, A fac simile of some- thing Invented, made on a reduced scale, in compliance with the patent laws. See State v. Fox, 25 N. J. Law, 566; Montana Ore Purchasing Co. v. Boston, etc., Min Co., 27 Mont 288, 70 Pac. More...
  • MODERAMEN INCULPATE TUTELAE
    Lat. In Roman law. The regulation of justifiable defense. A term used to express that degree of force in defense of the person or property which a person might safely use, although it should occasion the death of the aggressor. Calvin; Bell.
  • MODERATA MISERICORDIA
    A writ founded on Magna Charta. which lies for him who is amerced in a court not of record, for any transgression beyond the quality or quantity of the offense. It Is addressed to the lord of the court, or his bailiff, commanding nim to take a moderate amerciament of More...
  • MODERATE CASTIGAVIT
    Lat In pleading. He moderately chastised. The name of a plea in trespass which justifies an alleged battery on the ground that It consisted in a moderate chastisement of the plaintiff by the defendant, which, from their relations, the latter had a legal right to inflict
  • MODERATE SPEED
    In admiralty law. AS applied to a steam-vessel, "such speed only is moderate as will permit the steamer reasonably and effectually to avoid a collision by slackening speed, or by stopping and reversing, within the distance at which an approaching vessel can be seen." The City of New York (C. More...
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