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MAJOR CONTINET IN SE MINUS

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Latin, meaning The greater contains the less. … [Read more...] about MAJOR CONTINET IN SE MINUS

MAKE ONE WHOLE

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To provide compensation or award damages to an injured party that places that party back in the same position that they were in prior to the injury. … [Read more...] about MAKE ONE WHOLE

MAINTAINORS

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criminal law. Those who maintain or support a cause depending between others, not being retained as counsel or attorney. For this they may be fined and imprisoned. … [Read more...] about MAINTAINORS

MAJOR GENERAL

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In military law. An officer next in rank above a brigadier general, and next below a lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or an army corps. Major hsereditas venit unicnique nostrum a jnre et legibus qnam a parenti bus. 2 Inst 56. A greater inheritance comes to every one of us from right and the laws than from parents. Major numeral in se continet mi norem. … [Read more...] about MAJOR GENERAL

MAKER

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(A) This term is applied to one who makes a promissory note and promises to pay it when due. He who makes a bill of exchange is called the drawer, and frequently in common parlance and in books of Reports we find the word drawer inaccurately applied to the maker of a promissory note. See Promissory note. (B) This term may also refer to a person endorses a check or a note to … [Read more...] about MAKER

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