A sum due by law or usage for mooring or fastening of ships to trees or posts at the shore, or to a wharf. Wharf Case, 3 Bland (Md.) 373. … [Read more...] about MOORAGE
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MORANDAE SOLUTIONIS CAUSA
Lat. For the purpose of delaying or postponing payment or performance. … [Read more...] about MORANDAE SOLUTIONIS CAUSA
MONITORY LETTER
eccl. law. The process of an official, a bishop or other prelate having jurisdiction, issued to compel, by ecclesiastical censures, those who know of a crime or other matter which requires to be explained, to come and reveal it. Merl. Repert. h. t. … [Read more...] about MONITORY LETTER
MONSTRUM
A box in which relics are kept; also a muster of soldiers. Cowell … [Read more...] about MONSTRUM
MONITORY LETTERS
Communications of warning and admonition sent from an ecclesiastical judge, upon information of scandal and abuses within the cognizance of his court … [Read more...] about MONITORY LETTERS