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MISREADING

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Reading a deed or other instrument to an illiterate or blind man (who is a party to it) in a false or deceitful manner, so that he conceives a wrong idea of its tenor or contents. See 5 Coke, 19; 6 East 309; Hallenbeck v. Dewitt, 2 Johns. (N. Y.) 404. … [Read more...]

MISCASTING

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By this term is not understood any pretended miscasting or misvaluing, but simply an error in auditing and numbering. … [Read more...]

MISCEGENATION

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

MISERABILE DEPOSITUM

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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...]

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