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MUTUARI

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To borrow; mutuatus, a borrowing. 2 Arch. Pr. 25. … [Read more...]

MUTUARY

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A person who borrows personal chattels to be consumed by him and returned to the lender in kind and quantity ; the borrower in a contract of mutuu. … [Read more...]

MURDRUM

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old Engl. law. During the times of the Danes, and afterwards till the reign of Edward III, murdrum was the killing of a man in a secret manner, and in that it differed from simple homicide. 2. When a man was thus killed, and he was unknown, by the laws of Canute he was presumed to be a Dane, and the vill was compelled to pay forty marks for his death. After the conquest, a … [Read more...]

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