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Mortgagee






Mortgagee

Estates, contracts. He to whom a mortgage is made.

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Mortgage
A legal instrument that creates a lien upon real estate securing the payment of a specific debt.



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Mort d'ancestor
An 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.

Mortgage
A legal instrument that creates a lien upon real estate securing the payment of a specific debt.

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.

Mortuum vadium
A mortgage; a dead pledge

Mortuus est
A return made by the sheriff, when the defendant is dead, as an excuse for not executing the writ.



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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
An 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.

Mortgagee

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.

Mortuum vadium
A mortgage; a dead pledge

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