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  • MUTATION
    In French law. This term is synonymous with "change," and is especially applied to designate the change which takes place in the property of a thing in its transmission from one person to another. Mutation, therefore, happens when the owner of the thing sells, exchanges, or gives it. Merl. Rupert.
  • MUTATION OF LIBEL
    In practice. An amendment allowed to a libel, by which there is an alteration of the substance of the libel, as by propounding a new cause of action, pr asking one thing instead of another. Dunl. Adm. Pr. 213.
  • MUTATIS MUTANDIS
    Lat. With the necessary changes in points of detail.
  • MUTE
    Speechless; dumb; that cannot or will not speak. In English criminal law, a prisoner is said to stand mute when, being arraigned for treason or felony, he either makes no answer at all, or answers foreign to the purpose or with such matter as is not allowable, and will not More...
  • MUTILATION
    As applied to written documents, such as wills, court records, and the like, this term means rendering the document Imperfect by the subtraction from it of some essential part, as, by cutting, tearing, burning, or erasure, but without totally destroying it. See Woodflll y. Patton, 76 Ind. 583, 40 Am. More...
  • MUTINOUS
    Insubordinate; disposed to mutiny; tending to incite or encourage mutiny.
  • MUTINY
    In criminal law. An insurrection of soldiers or seamen against the authority of their commanders; a sedition or revolt in the army or navy. See The Sta,-cey Clarke (D. C.) 54 Fed. 533; McCargo v. New Orleans Ins. Co., 10 Rob. (La.) 313, 43 Am. Dec. 180. -Mutiny aot. In More...
  • MUTUAL
    Interchangeable; reciprocal; each acting in return or correspondence to the other; given and received; spoken of an engagement or relation in which like duties and obligations are exchanged. "Mutual" is not synonymous with "common.** The latter word, in one of its meanings, denotes that which is shared, in the same More...
  • MUTUALITY
    Reciprocation; interchange. An acting by each of two parties; an acting in return. In every agreement the parties must as regards the principal or essential part of the transaction, intend the same thing; i. e.. each must know what the other is to do. This is called "mutuality of assent." More...
  • MUTUANT
    The person who lends chattels in the contract of mutuum, (g. v.)
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