(Merchants' Accounts) In the statute of limitations, 21 Jac. 1. c. 16, there is an exception which has been copied in the acts of the legislatures of a number of the States, that its provisions shall not apply to such accounts as concern trade and merchandise between merchant and merchant, their factors or servants. 2. This exception, it has been holden, applies to actions of … [Read more...]

Lat. From memory; by or from recollection. Thus, memortter proof of a written instrument is such as is furnished by the recollection of a witness who had seen and known it. … [Read more...]

Relating to or existing in the mind; intellectual, emotional, or psychic, as distinguished from bodily or physical. Mental alienation. A phrase sometimes used to describe insanity, (g. v.)Mental anguish. When connected with a physical injury, this term includes both the resultant mental sensation of pain and also the accompanying feelings of distress, fright, and anxiety. See … [Read more...]

Committing anything to memory. Used to describe the act of one who listens to a public representation of a play or drama, and then, from his recollection of its scenes, incidents, or language, reproduces it, substantially or in part, in derogation of the rights of the author. See 5 Term B, 245; 14 Amer. Law Beg. (N. S.) 207. … [Read more...]

In personal injury cases, mental pain and suffering damages such as fright, distress, anxiety, grief and general mental torment which qualifies for an award of monetary compensation. … [Read more...]