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  • 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.
  • MULATTO
    A mulatto Is defined to be "a person that is the offspring of a negress by a white man, or of a white woman by a negro." Thurman v. State, 18 Ala. 276.
  • MULCT
    A penalty or punishment Imposed on a person guilty of some ofTense. tort, or misdemeanor, usually a pecuniary fine or condemnation in damages. See Cook v. Marshall County, 119 Iowa, 384, 93 N. W. 372, 104 Am. St. Rep. 283. Muleta damnum fames non irrogat. Cod. 1, 54. A fine More...
  • MULIER
    Lat. (1) A woman; (2) a virgin; (3) a wife; (4) a legitimate child. "I Inst. 243."
  • MULIER PUISNE
    L. Fr. When ft man has a bastard son, and afterwards marries the mother, and by her has also a legitimate son, the elder son is bastard eigne and the younger son is mulier puisne*.
  • MULIERATUS
    A legitimate son. Glanvil.
  • MULIERTY
    In old English law. The state or condition of a mulier, or lawful is* sue. Co. Litt 352b. The opposite of bastardy. Blount Malta oonoednntnr per obliqunm qnsa non oonoednntnr de direeto. Many things are allowed indirectly which are not allowed directly. 6 Coke, 47.
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