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Motion




Motion

Practice. An application to a court by one of the parties in a cause, or his counsel, in order to obtain some rule or order of court

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Practice
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts.

Application
The primary step in all divorce proceedings and court order. (the standard forms are available from the court office.

Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.

Parties
Contracts. Those persons who engage themselves to do, or not to do the matters and things contained in an agreement.

Cause
1) Civil law. It signifies the delivery of the thing, or the accomplishment of the act which is the object of a convention. 2) It is the consideration or motive for making a contract. 3) Pleading. The reason; the motive. 4) Practice. A contested question before a court of justice; it is a Suit or action.

Counsel
1) Advice given to another as to what he ought to do or not to do. 2) An officer of court. One who undertakes to conduct suits and actions in court. The same as counsellor. 3) Practice, Criminal law. In the oath of the grand jurors, there is a provision requiring them to keep secret " the commonwealth's counsel, their fellows, and their own." In this sense this word is synonymous with knowledge.

Order
An instruction rightfully given by someone superior in hyerarchy. Also, a social state of civil coexistance without widespread public violence.

Rule
This is a metaphorical expression borrowed from mechanics. The rule, in its proper and natural sense, is an instrument by means of which may be drawn from one point to another, the shortest possible line, which is called a straight line.



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Motion in limine
A motion made by counsel requesting that information which might be prejudicial not be allowed to be heard in a case.

Motion to modify
A written request of the court to change a previous order regarding child custody, support, alimony or other divorce



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

Most significant connection
The principle of the conflict of laws according to which the "proper" (i.e. applicable) law of a contract or tort is the law which, on policy grounds, appears to have the most significant connection with the chain of acts and consequences in the particular case at hand. This connection is assessed by consideration of the "connecting factors," or "contacts" (supra), linking the legal situation concerned with the different jurisdictions involved. The term was used by J.H.C. Morris in his renowned essays, "Torts in the Conflict of Laws" (1949) 12 Modern Law Rev. 248 and "The Proper Law of a Tort" (1951) 64 Harv. L. Rev. 881. In contract conflicts, the corresponding term generally used in the United Kingdom and British Commonwealth countries today is "closest and most real connection".

Most significant relationship
The conflict of laws principle that requires that the "proper" (applicable) law be that of the state having the closest and most real connection with the facts of the case concerned. The term was derived from "most significant connection" as first used by J.H.C. Morris and was introduced into American private international law by Willis M. Reese, the principal author of the Restatement (Second) of the Conflict of Laws, 1969, where it figures prominently.

Mother
Domestic relations. A woman who has borne a child.

Mother-in-law
In Latin socrus. The mother of one's wife, or of one's husband.

Motion

Motion in limine
A motion made by counsel requesting that information which might be prejudicial not be allowed to be heard in a case.

Motion to modify
A written request of the court to change a previous order regarding child custody, support, alimony or other divorce

Mou
Abbreviation fo "Memorandum of Understanding." A document which, if meeting the other criteria, can be, in law, a contract. Generally, in the world of commerce or international negotiations, a MOU is considered to be a preliminary document; not a comprehensive agreement between two parties but rather an interim or partial agreement on some elements, in some cases a mere agreement in principle, on which there has been accord. Most MOU's imply that something more is eventually expected.

Mourning
This word has several significations. 1) It is the apparel worn at funerals, and for a time afterwards, in order to manifest grief for the death of some one, and to honor his memory. 2) The expenses paid for such apparel.

Movables
Estates. Such subjects of property as attend a man's person wherever he goes, in contradistinction to things immovable.

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