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MOBBING AND RIOTING

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In Scotch law. A general term including all those convocations of the lieges for violent and unlawful purposes, which are attended with injury to the persons or property of the lieges, or terror and alarm to the neighborhood in which it takes place. The two phrases are usually placed together; but, nevertheless, they have distinct meanings, and are sometimes used separately in … [Read more...]

MODO ET FORMA

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Latin: In manner and form. Words used in the old Latin forms of pleadings by way of traverse, and literally translated in the modern precedents, importing that the party traversing denies the allegation of the other party, not only in its general effect, but in the exact manner and form .in which it is made. Steph. PL 189, 190. … [Read more...]

MOBILIA

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Lat. Movables; movable things; otherwise called "res mobiles." Mobilia non habent situm. Movables have no situs or local habitation. Holmes v. Remsen, 4 Johns. (N. Y.) Ch. 472, 8 Am. Dec. 581. Mobilia sequuntur personam. Movables follow the [law of the] person. Story, Confl. Law, … [Read more...]

MOCKADOES

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A kind of cloth made in England, mentioned in St 23 Eliz. c. 9. … [Read more...]

MODAL LEGACY

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A modal legacy is a bequest accompanied with directions as to the mode in which it should be applied for the legatee's benefit; for example, a legacy to Titius to put him an apprentice. 2 Vern. 431; Lownd. Leg. 151. … [Read more...]

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