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Latin, meaning It is a miserable slavery where the law is vague or uncertain. … [Read more...] about MISERA EST SERVITUS UBI JUS EST VAGUM AUT INCERTUM

Mixture of races; marriage between persons of different races; as between a white person and a negro. … [Read more...] about MISCEGENATION

Lat. In the civil law. The name of an involuntary deposit, made under pressing necessity; as, for instance, shipwreck, fire, or other inevitable calamity. Poth. Proc. Civile, pt. 5, c. 1, … [Read more...] about MISERABILE DEPOSITUM

An erroneous charge; a charge, given by a court fo a Jury, which involves errors for which the Judgment may be reversed. … [Read more...] about MISCHARGE

The name and first word of one of the penitential psalms, being that which was commonly used to be given by the ordinary to such condemned malefactors as were allowed the benefit of clergy; whence it is also called the "psalm of mercy." Wharton. … [Read more...] about MISERERE