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  • MONUMENT
    1. Anything by which the memory of a person or an event is preserved or perpetuated. A tomb where a dead body has been deposited. Mead v. Case, 33 Barb. (N. Y.) 202; In re Ogden, 25 R. I. 373, 55 Aa 933. 2. In real-property law and surveying, monuments More...
  • MONYA
    In Norman law. Moneyage. A tax or tribute of one shilling on every hearth, payable to the duke every three years, in consideration that he should not alter the coin. Hale, Com. Law, 148, and note.
  • MOOKTAR
    In Hindu law. An agent or attorney.
  • MOOKTARNAMA
    In Hindu law. A written authority constituting an agent; a power of attorney.
  • MOOR
    An officer in the Isle of Man, who summons the courts for the several sheadings. The office is similar to the English bailiff of a hundred.
  • MOORAGE
    A sum due by law or usage for mooring or fastening of ships to trees or posts at the shore, or to a wharf. Wharf Case, 3 Bland (Md.) 373.
  • MOORING
    In maritime law. Anchoring or making fast to the shore or dock; the securing or confining a vessel in a particular station, as by cables and anchors or by a line or chain run to the wharf. A vessel is "moored in safety," within the meaning of a policy of More...
  • MOOT
    n. In English law. Moots are exercises in pleading, and in arguing doubtful cases and questions, by the students of an inn of court before the benchers of the inn. Sweet. In Saxon law. A meeting or assemblage of people, particularly for governmental or judicial purposes. The more usual forms More...
  • MOOT
    adj. A subject for argument; unsettled ; undecided. A moot point is one not settled by judicial decisions. A moot case is one which seeks to determine an abstract question which does not arise upon existing facts or rights. Adams v. Union R. Co., 21 R. I. 134, 42 Ati. More...
  • MOOTA CANUM
    In old English law. A pack of dogs. Cowell.
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