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MULCT

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(A) punishment. A fine imposed on the conviction of an offence. (B) commerce. An imposition laid on ships or goods by a company of trade, for the maintenance of consuls and the like. Obsolete. … [Read more...]

MOVABLES

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Things movable; movable or personal chattels, which may be annexed to or attendant on the person of the owner, and carried about with him from one part of the world to another. 2 Bl. Comm. 387. Movables consistFirst, of inanimate things, as goods, plate, money, jewels, implements of war, garments, and the like, or vegetable productions, as the fruit or other parts of a plant … [Read more...]

MULIER

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Lat. (1) A woman; (2) a virgin; (3) a wife; (4) a legitimate child. … [Read more...]

MOVANT

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The party making a motion. … [Read more...]

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