The necessary changes. This is a phrase of frequent practical occurrence, meaning that matters or things are generally the same, but to be altered, when necessary, as to names, offices, and the like. … [Read more...]
MURDER IN THE THIRD DEGREE
The killing of a person that is the result of the commission of a felonious act. … [Read more...]
MURDRUM
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...]
MURORUM OPERATIO
Latin: The service of work and labor done by inhabitants and adjoining tenants in buildiug or repairing the walls of a city or castle; their personal service was commuted into murage, (q. p.) Cowell. … [Read more...]
MURTHRUM
In old Scotch law. Murther or murder. Skene. … [Read more...]