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  • MONIMENT
    A memorial, superscription, or record.
  • MONITION
    In practice. A monition is a formal order of the court commanding something to be done by the person to whom it is directed, and who is called the "person nionished." Thus, when money is decreed to be paid, a monition may be obtained commanding its payment In ecclesiastical procedure, More...
  • MONITORY LETTERS
    Communications of warning and admonition sent from an ecclesiastical judge, upon information of scandal and abuses within the cognizance of his court
  • MONOCRACY
    A government by one person.
  • MONOCRAT
    A monarch who governs alone; an absolute governor.
  • MONOGAMY
    The marriage of one wife only, or the state of such as are restrained to a single wife. Webster. A marriage contracted between one man and one woman, in exclusion of all tbe rest of mankind. The term is used in opposition to "bigamy** and "polygamy/1 Wolff, Dr. de la More...
  • MONOGRAM
    A character or cipher composed of one or more letters interwoven, being an abbreviation of a name.
  • MONOGRAPH
    A special treatise upon a particular subject of limited range; a treatise or commentary upon a particular branch or division of a general subject
  • MONOMACHY
    A duel; a single combat It was anciently allowed by law for the trial or proof of crimes. It was even permitted in pecuniary causes, but it is now forbidden both by the civil law and canon laws.
  • MONOMANIA
    In medical jurisprudence. Derangement of a single faculty of the mind, or with regard to a particular subject the other faculties being in regular exercise. See INSANITY. Monopolia dicitnr, com nnns solns ali-qnod genus mereatnrse nniversnm emit, pretinm ad snnm libitum statnens. 11 Coke, 86. It is said to be More...
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