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MUTATION OF LIBEL

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In practice. An amendment allowed to a libel, by which there is an alteration of the substance of the libel, as by propounding a new cause of action, pr asking one thing instead of another. Dunl. Adm. Pr. 213. … [Read more...]

MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE

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The killing of a person as a result of an intent to inflict harm but without premeditation or prior planning. … [Read more...]

MUTATIS MUTANDIS

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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...]

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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