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Mescroyant
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MescroyantUsed in our ancient books. An unbeliever.
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Books
Commerce, accounts. Merchants, traders, and other persons, who are desirous of understanding their affairs, and of explaining them when necessary, keep, 1. a day book; 2. a journal; 3. a ledger; 4. a letter book; 5. an invoice book; 6. a cash book; 7. a bill book; 8. a bank book; and 9. a cheek book. The reader is referred to these several articles
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Mercy
1) Practice. To be in mercy, signifies to be liable to punishment at the discretion of the judge. 2) Criminal law. The total or partial remission of a punishment to which a convict is subject. When the whole punishment is remitted, it is called a pardon; when only a part of the punishment is remitted, it is frequently a conditional pardon; or before sentence, it is called clemency or mercy.
Mere
This is the French word for mother. It is frequently used as, in ventre sa mere, which signifies; a child unborn, or in the womb.
Merger
1) Where a greater and lesser thing meet, and the latter loses its separate existence and sinks into the former. It is applied to estates, rights, crimes, and torts. 2) estates. When a greater estate and less coincide and meet in one and the same person, without any intermediate estate, the less is immediately merged, that is, sunk or drowned in the latter; example, if there be a tenant for years, and the reversion in fee simple descends to, or is purchased by him, the term of years is merged in the inheritance, and no longer exists; but they must be to one and the same person, at one and the same time, in one and the same right. 3) Criminal law. When a man commits a great crime which includes a lesser, the latter is merged in the former. 4) Rights. Rights are said to be merged when the same person who is bound to pay is also entitled to receive. This is more properly called a confusion of rights, or extinguishment.
Merits
This word is used principally in matters of defence.
Merton, statute of
A statute so called, because the parliament or rather council, which enacted it, sat at Merton, in Surrey.
Mescroyant
Mese
An ancient word used to signify house, probably from the French maison; it is said that by this word the buildings, curtilage, orchards and gardens will pass.
Mesne
The middle between two extremes, that part between the commencement and the end, as it relates to time.
Mesne conveyance
A conveyance between others; an immediate transfer.
Mesne process
Any process issued between original and final process; that is, between the original writ and the execution.
Mesne, writ of
The name of an ancient writ, which lies when: the lord para- mount distrains on the tenant paravail; the latter shall have a writ of mesne against the lord who is mesne.
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Books
Commerce, accounts. Merchants, traders, and other persons, who are desirous of understanding their affairs, and of explaining them when necessary, keep, 1. a day book; 2. a journal; 3. a ledger; 4. a letter book; 5. an invoice book; 6. a cash book; 7. a bill book; 8. a bank book; and 9. a cheek book. The reader is referred to these several articles
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Mercy
1) Practice. To be in mercy, signifies to be liable to punishment at the discretion of the judge. 2) Criminal law. The total or partial remission of a punishment to which a convict is subject. When the whole punishment is remitted, it is called a pardon; when only a part of the punishment is remitted, it is frequently a conditional pardon; or before sentence, it is called clemency or mercy.
Mere
This is the French word for mother. It is frequently used as, in ventre sa mere, which signifies; a child unborn, or in the womb.
Merger
1) Where a greater and lesser thing meet, and the latter loses its separate existence and sinks into the former. It is applied to estates, rights, crimes, and torts. 2) estates. When a greater estate and less coincide and meet in one and the same person, without any intermediate estate, the less is immediately merged, that is, sunk or drowned in the latter; example, if there be a tenant for years, and the reversion in fee simple descends to, or is purchased by him, the term of years is merged in the inheritance, and no longer exists; but they must be to one and the same person, at one and the same time, in one and the same right. 3) Criminal law. When a man commits a great crime which includes a lesser, the latter is merged in the former. 4) Rights. Rights are said to be merged when the same person who is bound to pay is also entitled to receive. This is more properly called a confusion of rights, or extinguishment.
Merits
This word is used principally in matters of defence.
Merton, statute of
A statute so called, because the parliament or rather council, which enacted it, sat at Merton, in Surrey.
Mescroyant
Mese
An ancient word used to signify house, probably from the French maison; it is said that by this word the buildings, curtilage, orchards and gardens will pass.
Mesne
The middle between two extremes, that part between the commencement and the end, as it relates to time.
Mesne conveyance
A conveyance between others; an immediate transfer.
Mesne process
Any process issued between original and final process; that is, between the original writ and the execution.
Mesne, writ of
The name of an ancient writ, which lies when: the lord para- mount distrains on the tenant paravail; the latter shall have a writ of mesne against the lord who is mesne.
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