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  • MOURNING
    The dress or apparel worn by mourners at a funeral and "for a time afterwards. Also the expenses paid for such apparel.
  • MOUTH
    By statute in some states, the mouth of a river or creek, which empties in- , to another river or creek, is defined as the point where the middle of the channel of each intersects the other. Pol. Code Cal. 1908, | 3908; Rev. St. Ariz. 1901, par. 931.
  • MOVABLE
    That which can be changed in place, as movable property; or In time, as movable feasts or terms of court See Wood v. George, 6 Dana (Ky.) 343; Strong v. White, 19 Conn. 245; Goddard v. Winchell, 86 Iowa, 71, 52 N. W. 1124, 17 L. R. A. 788, 41 More...
  • MOVABLES
    Things movable; movable or personal chattels, which may be annexed to or attendant on the person of the owner, and carried about with him from one part of the world to another. 2 Bl. Comm. 387. Movables consist-First, of inanimate things, as goods, plate, money, jewels, Implements of war, garments, More...
  • MOVE
    1. To make an application to a court for a rule or order. "2. To propose a resolution, or recommend action in a deliberative body." "3. To pass over; to be transferred; as when the consideration of a contract is said to "move" from one party to the other." "4. More...
  • MOVENT
    One who moves; one who makes a motion before a court; the applicant for a rule or order.
  • MOVING FOR AN ARGUMENT
    Making a motion on a day which is not motion day, in virtue of having argued a special case; used in the exchequer after it became obsolete in the queen's bench. Wharton,
  • MUCIANA CAUTIO
    See CAUTIO.
  • MUEBLES
    In Spanish law. Movables; all sorts of personal property. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 3, c. 1, ? 2.
  • MUIRBURN
    In Scotch law. The offense of setting fire to a muir or moor, 1 Brown, Ch. 78, 116.
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