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MISERABILE DEPOSITUM

Lat. In the civil law. The name of an Involuntary deposit, made under pressing necessity; as, for instance, shipwreck, fire, or other inevi- table calamity. Poth. Proc. Civile, pt. 5, c. 1,

MITTIMUS

In English law. A writ used in sending a record or its tenor from one court to another. Thus, where a nul ticl record is pleaded in one court to the record

MODO ET FORMA

Lat. In manner and form. Words used in the old Latin forms of pleadings by way of traverse, and literally translated in the modern precedents, Importing that the party traversing denies the

MONARCHY

A government in which the supreme power is vested in a single person. Where a monarch is invested with absolute power, the monarchy is termed “despotic;” where the supreme power is virtually

MONOMANIA

In medical jurisprudence. Deraugement of a single faculty of the mind, or with regard to a particular subject the other faculties being in regular exercise. See INSANITY. Monopolia dicitur, cnm nnns solus

MORAL

1. Pertaining or relating to the conscience or moral sense or to the general principles of right conduct. 2. Cognizable or enforceable only by the conscience or by the principles of right

MOURNING

The dress or apparel worn by mourners at a funeral and for a time aft- erwards. Also the expenses paid for such apparel.

MULTIPLICITY

A state of being many. That quality of a pleading which Involves a variety of matters or particulars; undue variety. 2 Saund. 410. A multiplying or increasing. Story. Eq. PI.

MURAGE

A toll formerly levied in England for repairing or building public walls.

MUTINY

n 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

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