A municipal corporation: a city, town, borough, or incorporated village. Also the body of officers, taken collectively, belonging to a city. … [Read more...]
MULTURE
Scotch law. The quantity of grain or meal payable to the proprietor of the mill, or to the multurer, his tacksman, for manufacturing the corns … [Read more...]
MUNICIPIUM
In Roman law. A foreign town to which the freedom of the city of Rome was granted, and whose inhabitants had the privilege of enjoying offices and honors there; a free town. Adams, Rom. Ant 47, 77. … [Read more...]
MUMMIFICATION
In medical jurisprudence. A term applied to the complete drying up of the body. It is the result o burial in a dry, hot soil, or the exposure of the body to a continuously cold and dry atmosphere. 15 Amer. & Eng. Enc. Law, 261. … [Read more...]
MUMMING
Antic diversions in the Christmas holidays, suppressed in Queen Anne's time. … [Read more...]