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A final judgment rendered by the court within which the defendant is ordered to pay the plaintiff a sum of money. … [Read more...] about MONEY JUDGMENT

A duel; a single combat It was anciently allowed by law for the trial or proof of crimes. It was even permitted in pecuniary causes, but it is now forbidden both by the civil law and canon laws. … [Read more...] about MONOMACHY

To take money that is from illegal sources and use and commingle it with a legal and legitimate enterprise so as to clean the money to appear that proceeds are from a valid enterprise. … [Read more...] about MONEY LAUNDERING

In medical jurisprudence. Derangement of a single faculty of the mind, or with regard to a particular subject the other faculties being in regular exercise. See INSANITY. Monopolia dicitur, com nuns solus aliquod genus mereaturse universum emit, pretium ad suum libitum stataens. It is said to be a monopoly when one person alone buys up the whole of one kind of commodity, … [Read more...] about MONOMANIA

In actions of assumpsit a count is frequently introduced in the declaration charging that the defendant promised to pay the plaintiff for money lent. To recover, the plaintiff must prove that the defendant received his money, but it is not indispensable that it should be originally lent. If, for example, money has been advanced upon a special contract, which has been abandoned … [Read more...] about MONEY LENT