MIDDLE THREAD
The middle thread of a stream is an imaginary line drawn lengthwise through the middle of Its current.
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The middle thread of a stream is an imaginary line drawn lengthwise through the middle of Its current.
A toll or duty paid for selling corn by the inina. Cowell.
The charge or commission taken by the mint as a consideration for coining into money the bullion which is brought to it for that purpose; the same as “seigniorage.” Also that which
In legislative parlance, the word is often used to signify the evil or danger which a statute is intended to cure or avoid. In the phrase “malicious mischief,” (which see,) it imports
In Saxon and old English law. An unjust or irregular summoning to court; to speak unsteadily in court; to vary in one’s plea. Cowell; Blount; Spelman.
Some unintentional act, omission, or error arising from ignorance, sur- prise, imposition, or misplaced confidence. Code Ga.
Lat. Movables; movable things; otherwise called “res mobiles.” Mobilia non habent situm. Movables have no situs or local habitation. Holmes v. Remsen, 4 Johns. (N. Y.) Ch. 472, 8 Am. Dee. 581.
A gold coin of Portugal, valued at twenty-seven English shillings.
A dealer or seller. It is seldom or never used alone, or otherwise than after the name of any commodity, to express a seller of such commodity.
A box in which relics are kept; also a muster of soldiers. Cowell.
See MARRIAGE.
Lat. By reason of death; iu contemplation of death. Thus used in the phrase “Donatio mortis causa,” (q. v.) Mortis momentum est ultimum vita momentum. The last moment of life is the
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.
A receiving into favor and protection. Cowell.
In old English law. A moss or marsh ground, or a place where sedges grow; a place overrun with moss. Cowell.
Lat. In civil and old English law. Dumb and deaf. MUTUUM 801 MYSTIC TESTAMENT
In old English law. A barn or granary open at the top; a rick or stack of corn. Spelman.
In old pleading. Great beasts, as horses, oxen, etc. Cro. Jae. 5S0.
See MAYHEM; MAIM.
To maintain an action or suit is to commence or institute it; the term imports the existence of a cause of action. Boutiller v. The Milwaukee, 8 Minn. 105, (Gil. 80, 81.)