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MEDICO-LEGAL

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Relating to the law concerning medical questions. … [Read more...]

MAYHEM

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In criminal law. The act of unlawfully and violently depriving another of the use of such of his members as may render him less able, in fighting, either to defend himself or annoy his adversary. Every person who unlawfully and maliciously deprives a human being of a member of his body, or disables, disfigures, or renders it useless, or cuts or disables the tongue, or puts out … [Read more...]

MEAN

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This word is sometimes used for mesne. … [Read more...]

MEDERIA

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In old records. A house or place where metheglin, or mead, was made. … [Read more...]

MAYHEMAVIT

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Maimed. This is a term of art which cannot be supplied in pleading by any other word, as mutilavit, truncavit, etc. 3 Thorn. Co. Litt 548; Com. v. Newell, 7 Mass. 247. … [Read more...]

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