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Menial
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MenialThis term is applied to servants who live under their master's roof.
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Term
1) Construction. Word; expression speech. 2) Contracts. This word is used in the civil, law to denote the space of time granted to the debtor for discharging his obligation; there are express terms resulting from the positive stipulations of the agreement; as, where one undertakes to pay a certain sum on a certain day and also terms which tacitly result from the nature of the things which are the object of the engagement, or from the place where the act is agreed to be done. For instance, if a builder engage to construct a house for me, I must allow a reasonable time for fulfilling his engagement. 3) Estates. The limitation of an estate, as a term for years, for life, and the like. The word term does not merely signify the time specified in the lease, but the estate also and interest that passes by that lease; and therefore the term may expire during the continuance of the time, as by surrender, forfeiture and the like. 4) Practice. The space of time during which a court holds a session; sometimes the term is a monthly, at others it is a quarterly period, according to the constitution of the court.
Servants
(Negro or mulatto) Pennsylvania. By the fourth section of the act for the gradual abolition of slavery, passed the first day of March, 1780, it is "provided that every negro or mulatto child, born within this state after the passing of this act, shall be by virtue of this act the servant of such person, or his assigns who would in such case have been entitled to the service of such child, until such child attain unto the age of twenty-eight years, in the manner and on the conditions, whereon servants bound by indenture for four years are or may be retained or holden; and shall be liable to like correction and punishment, and entitled to like relief, in case he be evilly treated by his master, and to like freedom dues and privileges, as servants bound by indenture for four years are entitled, unless the person to whom such services belong shall abandon his claim to the same;
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Memorial
A petition or representation made by one or more individuals to a legislative or other body. When such instrument is addressed to a court, it is called a petition.
Memorialized
In writing.
Memory
Understanding; a capacity to make contracts, a will, or to commit a crime, so far as intention is necessary.
Memory, time of
According to the English common law, the time of memory commenced from the reign of Richard the First,
Menace
A threat; a declaration of an intention to cause evil to happen to another.
Menial
Mens rea
(United Kingdom) Guilty state of mind.
Mensa
This comprehends all goods and necessaries for livelihood. Obsolete
Mensa et thoro
The phrase a mensa et thoro is applied to a divorce which separates the husband and wife but does not dissolve the marriage.
Merchandise
By this term is understood all those things which merchants sell either wholesale or retail, as dry goods, hardware, groceries, drugs, &c. It is usually applied to personal chattels only, and to those which are not required for food or immediate support, but such as remain after having been used or which are used only by a slow consumption.
Merchant
One whose business it is to buy and sell merchandise; this applies to all persons who habitually trade in merchandise.
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Term
1) Construction. Word; expression speech. 2) Contracts. This word is used in the civil, law to denote the space of time granted to the debtor for discharging his obligation; there are express terms resulting from the positive stipulations of the agreement; as, where one undertakes to pay a certain sum on a certain day and also terms which tacitly result from the nature of the things which are the object of the engagement, or from the place where the act is agreed to be done. For instance, if a builder engage to construct a house for me, I must allow a reasonable time for fulfilling his engagement. 3) Estates. The limitation of an estate, as a term for years, for life, and the like. The word term does not merely signify the time specified in the lease, but the estate also and interest that passes by that lease; and therefore the term may expire during the continuance of the time, as by surrender, forfeiture and the like. 4) Practice. The space of time during which a court holds a session; sometimes the term is a monthly, at others it is a quarterly period, according to the constitution of the court.
Servants
(Negro or mulatto) Pennsylvania. By the fourth section of the act for the gradual abolition of slavery, passed the first day of March, 1780, it is "provided that every negro or mulatto child, born within this state after the passing of this act, shall be by virtue of this act the servant of such person, or his assigns who would in such case have been entitled to the service of such child, until such child attain unto the age of twenty-eight years, in the manner and on the conditions, whereon servants bound by indenture for four years are or may be retained or holden; and shall be liable to like correction and punishment, and entitled to like relief, in case he be evilly treated by his master, and to like freedom dues and privileges, as servants bound by indenture for four years are entitled, unless the person to whom such services belong shall abandon his claim to the same;
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Memorial
A petition or representation made by one or more individuals to a legislative or other body. When such instrument is addressed to a court, it is called a petition.
Memorialized
In writing.
Memory
Understanding; a capacity to make contracts, a will, or to commit a crime, so far as intention is necessary.
Memory, time of
According to the English common law, the time of memory commenced from the reign of Richard the First,
Menace
A threat; a declaration of an intention to cause evil to happen to another.
Menial
Mens rea
(United Kingdom) Guilty state of mind.
Mensa
This comprehends all goods and necessaries for livelihood. Obsolete
Mensa et thoro
The phrase a mensa et thoro is applied to a divorce which separates the husband and wife but does not dissolve the marriage.
Merchandise
By this term is understood all those things which merchants sell either wholesale or retail, as dry goods, hardware, groceries, drugs, &c. It is usually applied to personal chattels only, and to those which are not required for food or immediate support, but such as remain after having been used or which are used only by a slow consumption.
Merchant
One whose business it is to buy and sell merchandise; this applies to all persons who habitually trade in merchandise.
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