A person born of one white and one black parent. … [Read more...] about MULATTO
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MORTMAIN
A term applied to denote the alienation of lands or tenements to any corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal. These purchases having been chiefly made by religious houses, in consequence of which lands became perpetually inherent in one dead hand, this has occasioned the general appellation of comortmain to be applied to such alienations. 2 BL Comm. 268; Co. … [Read more...] about MORTMAIN
MOTION FOR JUDGMENT
A motion made by a party for the court to immediate award the party a favorable judgment and end the case. … [Read more...] about MOTION FOR JUDGMENT
MORTUARIES
Eng. law. These are a sort of ecclesiastical heriots, being a customary gift claimed by and due to the minister, in many parishes, on the death of the parishioner. … [Read more...] about MORTUARIES
MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
See summary judgment. … [Read more...] about MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT