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  • MORAVIANS
    Otherwise called "Herrn-hutters" or "United Brethren." A sect of Christians whose social polity is particular and conspicuous. It sprung up in Moravia and Bohemia, on the opening of that reformation which stripped the chair of St Peter of so many votaries, and gave birth to so many denominations of Christians. More...
  • MORBUS SONTICUS
    Lat In the civil law. A sickness which rendered a man incapable of attending to business.
  • MORE COLONICO
    Lat In old pleading. In husband-like manner. Townsh. PL 198.
  • MORE OR LESS
    This phrase, Inserted in a conveyance of land immediately after the statement of the quantity of land conveyed, means that such statement is not to be taken as a warranty of the quantity, but only an approximate estimate, and that the tract or parcel described is to pass, without regard More...
  • 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.
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