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Mayor
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MayorOfficer. The chief or executive magistrate of a city who bears this title.
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Chief
Principal. One who is put above the rest.
Executive
Government. That power in the government which causes the laws to be executed and obeyed: it is usually. confided to the hands of the chief magistrate; the president of the United States is invested with this authority under the national government; and the governor of each state has the executive power in his hands.
Magistrate
Mun. law. A public civil officer, invested with some part of the legislative, executive, or judicial power given by the constitution. In a narrower sense this term includes only inferior judicial officers, as justices of the peace.
City
Government. A town incorporated by that name.
Title
1) Estates. A title is defined by Lord Coke to be the means whereby the owner of lands hath the just possession of his property. 2) Legislation That part of an act of the legislature by which it is known, and distinguished from other acts the name of the act. 3) Rights. The name of a newwpaper a book, and the like.
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Mayor's court
The 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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Maturity
The time when a bill or note becomes due. In order to bind the endorsers such note or bill must be protested, when not paid, on the last day of grace.
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
Mayor's court
The 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.
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.
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Chief
Principal. One who is put above the rest.
Executive
Government. That power in the government which causes the laws to be executed and obeyed: it is usually. confided to the hands of the chief magistrate; the president of the United States is invested with this authority under the national government; and the governor of each state has the executive power in his hands.
Magistrate
Mun. law. A public civil officer, invested with some part of the legislative, executive, or judicial power given by the constitution. In a narrower sense this term includes only inferior judicial officers, as justices of the peace.
City
Government. A town incorporated by that name.
Title
1) Estates. A title is defined by Lord Coke to be the means whereby the owner of lands hath the just possession of his property. 2) Legislation That part of an act of the legislature by which it is known, and distinguished from other acts the name of the act. 3) Rights. The name of a newwpaper a book, and the like.
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Mayor's court
The 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.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Maturity
The time when a bill or note becomes due. In order to bind the endorsers such note or bill must be protested, when not paid, on the last day of grace.
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
Mayor's court
The 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.
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.
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