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Mort d'ancestor
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Mort d'ancestorAn ancient and now almost obsolete remedy in the English law. An assize of mort d'ancestor was a writ which was sued out where, after the decease of a man's ancestor, a stranger abated, and entered into the estate.
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Obsolete
This term is applied to those laws which have lost their efficacy, without being repealed.
Remedy
The means employed to enforce a right or redress an injury.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Writ
An official court document, signed by a judge or bearing an official court seal, which commands the person to whom it is addressed, to do something specific. That "person" is typically either a sheriff (who may be instructed to seize property, for example) or a defendant (for whom the writ is the first notice of formal legal action. In these cases, the writ would command the person to answer the charges laid out in the suit, or else judgment may be made against them in their absence).
Stranger
Persons, contracts.1) A person born out of the United States; but in this sense the term alien is more properly applied, until he becomes naturalized. 2) A person who is not privy to an act or contract; example, he who is a stranger to the issue, shall not take advantage of the verdict.
Estate
A right or interest in property or the property of a deceased person.
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Moral rights
The right, originating in Europe, to maintain control over work after it is sold to another, such as the right to claim authorship or prevent modification. Moral rights are separate from economic rights held by a copyright owner and are not recognized in the United States for writings, but are recognized for visual arts.
Moratorium
The temporary suspension of legal action against a person.
Moratur, in lege
He demurs in law. He rests on the pleadings of the case, and abides the judgment of the court.
Morgantic marriage
During the middle ages, there was an intermediate estate between matrimony and concubinage, known by this name. It is defined to be a lawful and inseparable conjunction of a single man, of noble and illustrious birth, with a single woman of an inferior or plebeian station, upon this condition, that neither the wife nor children should partake of the title, arms, or dignity of the husband, nor succeed to his inheritance, but should have a certain allowance assigned to them by the morgantic contract. The marriage ceremony was regularly performed; the union: was for life and indissoluble; and the children were considered legitimate, though they could not inherit.
Morris, john humphrey carlile
(1910- ) In The Proper Law of a Tort, (1951) Morris introduced the term "proper law of the tort", which he defined as "…the law which, on policy grounds, seems to have the most significant connection with the chain of acts and consequences in the particular situation before us." The concept of the "closest and most real connection", as seen in Dicey & Morris, in The Conflict of Laws, 1, is the basic concept of most conflict of laws legislation, national or international. Morris' concepts of "the most significant connection" / "the closest and most real connection" in contract.
Mort d'ancestor
Mortgagee
Estates, contracts. He to whom a mortgage is made.
Mortgagor
Estate's, contracts. He who makes a mortgage.
Mortification
Scotch law. This term is nearly synonymous with mortmain.
Mortmain
An unlawful alienation of lands, or tenements to any corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal. These purchases having been chiefly made by religious houses, in consequence of which lands became perpetually inherent in one dead hand, this has occasioned the general appellation of mortmain to be applied to such alienations.
Mortuaries
English law. These are a sort of ecclesiastical heriots, being a customary gift claimed by and due to the minister, in many parishes, on the death of the parishioner.
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Obsolete
This term is applied to those laws which have lost their efficacy, without being repealed.
Remedy
The means employed to enforce a right or redress an injury.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Writ
An official court document, signed by a judge or bearing an official court seal, which commands the person to whom it is addressed, to do something specific. That "person" is typically either a sheriff (who may be instructed to seize property, for example) or a defendant (for whom the writ is the first notice of formal legal action. In these cases, the writ would command the person to answer the charges laid out in the suit, or else judgment may be made against them in their absence).
Stranger
Persons, contracts.1) A person born out of the United States; but in this sense the term alien is more properly applied, until he becomes naturalized. 2) A person who is not privy to an act or contract; example, he who is a stranger to the issue, shall not take advantage of the verdict.
Estate
A right or interest in property or the property of a deceased person.
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Moral rights
The right, originating in Europe, to maintain control over work after it is sold to another, such as the right to claim authorship or prevent modification. Moral rights are separate from economic rights held by a copyright owner and are not recognized in the United States for writings, but are recognized for visual arts.
Moratorium
The temporary suspension of legal action against a person.
Moratur, in lege
He demurs in law. He rests on the pleadings of the case, and abides the judgment of the court.
Morgantic marriage
During the middle ages, there was an intermediate estate between matrimony and concubinage, known by this name. It is defined to be a lawful and inseparable conjunction of a single man, of noble and illustrious birth, with a single woman of an inferior or plebeian station, upon this condition, that neither the wife nor children should partake of the title, arms, or dignity of the husband, nor succeed to his inheritance, but should have a certain allowance assigned to them by the morgantic contract. The marriage ceremony was regularly performed; the union: was for life and indissoluble; and the children were considered legitimate, though they could not inherit.
Morris, john humphrey carlile
(1910- ) In The Proper Law of a Tort, (1951) Morris introduced the term "proper law of the tort", which he defined as "…the law which, on policy grounds, seems to have the most significant connection with the chain of acts and consequences in the particular situation before us." The concept of the "closest and most real connection", as seen in Dicey & Morris, in The Conflict of Laws, 1, is the basic concept of most conflict of laws legislation, national or international. Morris' concepts of "the most significant connection" / "the closest and most real connection" in contract.
Mort d'ancestor
Mortgagee
Estates, contracts. He to whom a mortgage is made.
Mortgagor
Estate's, contracts. He who makes a mortgage.
Mortification
Scotch law. This term is nearly synonymous with mortmain.
Mortmain
An unlawful alienation of lands, or tenements to any corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal. These purchases having been chiefly made by religious houses, in consequence of which lands became perpetually inherent in one dead hand, this has occasioned the general appellation of mortmain to be applied to such alienations.
Mortuaries
English law. These are a sort of ecclesiastical heriots, being a customary gift claimed by and due to the minister, in many parishes, on the death of the parishioner.
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