Legal Term Dictionary

Search our free database of thousands of legal terms. The easiest-to-read, most user-friendly guide to legal terms.This dictionary is from the early 20th century and is not to be construed as legal advice.

Search
  • MONOPOLIUM
    The sole power, right or privilege of sale; monopoly; a monopoly. Calvin.
  • MONOPOLY
    . In commercial law. A privilege or peculiar advantage vested in one or more persons or companies, consisting in the exclusive right (or power) to carry on a particular business or trade, manufacture a particular, article, or control the sale of the whole supply of a particular commodity. , Defined More...
  • MONSTER
    A prodigious birth; a human birth or offspring not having the shape of mankind, which cannot be heir to any land, albeit it be brought forth in marriage. Bract fol. 5; Co. Litt 7, 8; 2 BL Comm. 246.
  • MONSTRANS DE DROIT
    L. Fr. In English law. A showing or manifestation of right; one of the common law methods of obtaining possession or restitution from the crown, of either real or personal property. It is the proper proceeding when the right of the party, as well as the right of the crown, More...
  • MONSTRANS DE FAITS
    L. Fr. In old English practice. A showing of deeds', a species of profert Cowell.
  • MONSTRAVERUNT, WRIT OF
    In English law. A writ which lies for the tenants of ancient demesne who hold by free charter, and not for those tenants who hold by copy of court roll, or by the rod, according to the custom of the manor. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 14.
  • MONSTRUM
    A box in which relics are kept; also a muster of soldiers. CowelL
  • MONTES
    In Spanish law. Forests or woods. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit 1, c. 6, I 3L
  • MONTES PIETATIS
    Public pawnbrok-lng establishments; Institutions established by government, in some European countries, for lending small sums of money on pledges of personal property. In France they are called "monts de pitte'."
  • MONTH
    One of the divisions of a year. The space of time denoted by this term varies according as one or another of the following varieties of months is intended: Astronomical, containing one-twelfth of the time occupied by the sun in passing through the entire zodiac. Calender, civil, or solar, which More...
Showing 9360 of 14636