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Mayor's court
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Mayor's courtThe name of a court usually established in cities, composed of a mayor, recorder and aldermen, generally having jurisdiction of offences committed within the city, and of other matters specially given them by the statute.
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Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
Mayor
Officer. The chief or executive magistrate of a city who bears this title.
Recorder
1) A judicial officer of some cities, possessing generally the powers and authority of a judge. Anciently, recorder signified to recite or testify on re-collection as occasion might require what had previously passed in court, and this was the duty of the judges, thence called recordeurs. 2) An officer appointed to make record or onrolment of deeds and other legal instruments, authorized by law to be recorded.
Jurisdiction
Practice. A power constitutionally conferred upon a judge or magistrate, to take cognizance of, and decide causes according to law, and to carry his sentence into execution. The tract of land or district within which a judge or magistrate has jurisdiction, is called his territory, and his power in relation to his territory is called his territorial jurisdiction.
City
Government. A town incorporated by that name.
Statute
The written will of the legislature, solemnly expressed according to the forms prescribed in the constitution; an act of the legislature.
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Maxim
An established principle or proposition. A principle of law universally admitted, as being just and consonant With reason.
May
To be permited; to be at liberty; to have the power.
Mayhem
Crimes. The act of unlawfully and violently depriving another of the use of such of his members as may render him less able in fighting either to defend himself or annoy his adversary; and therefore the cutting or disabling, or weakening a man's hand or finger, or striking out his eye or foretooth, or depriving him of those parts the loss of which abates his courage, are held to be mayhems. But cutting off the ear or nose or the like, are not held to be mayhems at common law.
Mayhemavit
Maimed. This is a term of art which cannot be supplied in pleadings by any other word; as, mutilavit, truncavit,
Mayor
Officer. The chief or executive magistrate of a city who bears this title.
Mayor's court
Mcleod, james gary
The Canadian authority who in the Dicey and Morris/Restatement fashion, proposes two hundred and five rules to the conflicts of law. The first forty-seven rules refer to generalities and to jurisdiction, but the remainder consists of specific and detailed rules for specific issues. McLeod cites both English and Canadian jurisprudence, which he criticizes and synthesizes to formulate the proposed rules. He does, nevertheless, accept that issues such as domicile, residence and situs are really only connecting factors.
Mean
This word is sometimes used for mesne.
Meason-due
A corruption of Maison de Dieu.
Measure
That which is used as a rule to determine a quantity. A certain quantity of something, taken for a unit, and which expresses a relation with other quantities of the same thing.
Measure of damages
Practice. Those principles or rules of law which control a jury in adjusting or proportioning the damages, in certain cases.
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Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
Mayor
Officer. The chief or executive magistrate of a city who bears this title.
Recorder
1) A judicial officer of some cities, possessing generally the powers and authority of a judge. Anciently, recorder signified to recite or testify on re-collection as occasion might require what had previously passed in court, and this was the duty of the judges, thence called recordeurs. 2) An officer appointed to make record or onrolment of deeds and other legal instruments, authorized by law to be recorded.
Jurisdiction
Practice. A power constitutionally conferred upon a judge or magistrate, to take cognizance of, and decide causes according to law, and to carry his sentence into execution. The tract of land or district within which a judge or magistrate has jurisdiction, is called his territory, and his power in relation to his territory is called his territorial jurisdiction.
City
Government. A town incorporated by that name.
Statute
The written will of the legislature, solemnly expressed according to the forms prescribed in the constitution; an act of the legislature.
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Maxim
An established principle or proposition. A principle of law universally admitted, as being just and consonant With reason.
May
To be permited; to be at liberty; to have the power.
Mayhem
Crimes. The act of unlawfully and violently depriving another of the use of such of his members as may render him less able in fighting either to defend himself or annoy his adversary; and therefore the cutting or disabling, or weakening a man's hand or finger, or striking out his eye or foretooth, or depriving him of those parts the loss of which abates his courage, are held to be mayhems. But cutting off the ear or nose or the like, are not held to be mayhems at common law.
Mayhemavit
Maimed. This is a term of art which cannot be supplied in pleadings by any other word; as, mutilavit, truncavit,
Mayor
Officer. The chief or executive magistrate of a city who bears this title.
Mayor's court
Mcleod, james gary
The Canadian authority who in the Dicey and Morris/Restatement fashion, proposes two hundred and five rules to the conflicts of law. The first forty-seven rules refer to generalities and to jurisdiction, but the remainder consists of specific and detailed rules for specific issues. McLeod cites both English and Canadian jurisprudence, which he criticizes and synthesizes to formulate the proposed rules. He does, nevertheless, accept that issues such as domicile, residence and situs are really only connecting factors.
Mean
This word is sometimes used for mesne.
Meason-due
A corruption of Maison de Dieu.
Measure
That which is used as a rule to determine a quantity. A certain quantity of something, taken for a unit, and which expresses a relation with other quantities of the same thing.
Measure of damages
Practice. Those principles or rules of law which control a jury in adjusting or proportioning the damages, in certain cases.
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