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  • MORGANATIC MARRIAGE
    See MARRIAGE.
  • MORGANGINA, OR MORGANGIVA
    A gift on the morning after the wedding; dowry; the husband's gift to his wife on the day after the wedding. Du Cange; CowelL
  • MORGEN
    Anglo-Dutch. In old New York law. A measure of land, equal to about two acres
  • MORGUE
    A place where the bodies of persons found dead are kept for a limited time and exposed to view, to the end that their friends may identify them
  • MORMONISM
    A social and religious system prevailing in the territory of Utah, a distinctive feature of which is the practice of polygamy. These plural marriages are not recognized by law, but are Indictable offenses under the statutes of the United States and of Utah.
  • MORS
    Lat Death. Mors dieltur nltimum suppliorasa. Death is called the "last punishment** the "extremity of punishment" 3 Inst 212. Mors omnia solvit. Death dissolves all things. Jenk. Cent p. 160, case 2. Applied to the case of the death of a party to an action.
  • MORSELLUM, OR MORSELLUS, TERRAE
    In old English law. A small parcel or bit of land.
  • MORT CIVILE
    In French law. Civil death, as upon conviction for felony. It was nominally abolished by a law of the 31st of May, 1854, but something very similar to it in effect at least still remains. Thus, the property of the condemned, possessed by him at the date of his conviction, More...
  • MORT D'ANCESTOR
    An ancient and now almost obsolete remedy in the English law. An assize of mort aVancestor was a writ which lay for a person whose ancestor died seised of lands in fee-simple, and after his death a stranger abated; and this writ directed the sheriff to summon a Jury or More...
  • MORTALITY
    This word, in its ordinary sense, never means violent death, but death arising from natural causes. Lawrence v. Aberdein, 5 Barn. & Aid. 110.
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