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  • MUTUARI
    To borrow; mutuatus, a borrowing. 2 Arch. Pr. 25.
  • MUTUARY
    A person who borrows personal chattels to be consumed by him and returned to the lender in kind and quantity ; the borrower in a contract of mutuunu
  • MUTUS ET SURDUS
    Lat In civil and old English law. Dumb and deaf.
  • MUTUUM
    Lat. In the law of bailments. A loan for consumption; a loan of chattels, upon an agreement that the borrower may consume them, returning to the lender an equivalent in kind and quantity. Story, Bailm. | 228; Payne v. Gardiner, 29 N. Y. 167; Downes v. Phoenix Bank, 6 Hill More...
  • MYNSTER-HAM
    Monastic habitation; perhaps the part of a monastery set apart for purposes of hospitality, or as a sanctuary for criminals. Anc. Inst Eug.
  • MYSTERY
    A trade, art, or occupation. 2 Inst 668. Masters frequently bind themselves in the indentures with their apprentices to teach them their art trade, and mystery. State v. Bishop, 15 Me. 122; Bar-ger v. Caldwell, 2 Dana (Ky.) 131.
  • MYSTIC TESTAMENT
    In the law of Louisiana, a closed or sealed will, required by statute to be executed in a particular manner and to be signed (on the outside of the paper or of the envelope containing it) by a notary and seven witnesses as well as the testator. See Civ. Code More...
  • N.
    An abbreviation of "Novella," the Novels of Justinian, used in citing them. Tayl. Civil Law, 24. In English, a common and familiar abbreviation for the word "north," as used in maps, charta, conveyances, etc. See Burr v. Broadway Ins. Co., 16 N. X. 27L
  • N.A.
    An abbreviation for "non allocatur," it is not allowed.
  • N. B.
    An abbreviation for "nota bene," mark well, observe; also "nulla bona" no goods.
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