When a party makes a motion or request of court to vacate a judgment after it has been entered and order a new trial. Typically this occurs when significant legal errors occurred (which may have been committed by the judge) or the evidence presented was clearly insufficient to support the verdict reached by a jury. … [Read more...] about MOTION FOR A NEW TRIAL
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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