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  • MULTIPLICITY
    A state of being many. That quality of a pleading which involves a variety of matters or particulars; undue variety. 2 Saund. 410. A multiplying or increasing. Story. Eq. PI. f 287. -Multiplicity of actions. A phrase descriptive of the state of affairs where several different suits or actions are More...
  • MULTITUDE
    An assemblage of many people. According to Coke it is not a word of very precise meaning; for some authorities hold that there must be at least ten persons to make a multitude, while others maintain that no definite number is fixed by law. Co. Litt. 257. Multitudinem decern facinnt. More...
  • MULTO
    In old records. A wether sheep. Multo utillus est panca idonea efifun-dero qnam multis inutillbus homines gravarl. 4 Coke, 20. It is more useful to pour forth a few useful things than to oppress men with many useless things.
  • MULTURE
    In Scotch law. The quantity of grain or meal payable to the proprietor of a mill, or to the multurer, his tacksman, for manufacturing the corns. Ersk. Inst 2, 9, 19.
  • MUMMIFICATION
    In medical jurisprudence. A term applied to the complete drying up of the body. It is the result o burial in a dry, hot soil, or the exposure of the body to a continuously cold and dry atmosphere. 15 Amer. & Eng. Enc. Law, 261.
  • MUMMING
    Antic diversions in the Christmas holidays, suppressed in Queen Anne's time.
  • MUND
    In old English law. Peace; whence mundbryc, a breach of the peace.
  • MUNDBYRD, MUNDEBURDE
    A receiving Into favor and protection. Cowell.
  • MUNDIUM
    In old French law. A tribute paid by a church or monastery to their seignorial avone"* and vidames, as the price of protecting them. Steph. Lect 236.
  • MUNERA
    In the early ages of the feudal law, this was the name given to the grants of land made by a king or chieftain to his followers, which were held by no certain tenure, but merely at the will of the lord. Afterwards they became life-estates, and then hereditary, and More...
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