A toll formerly levied in England for repairing or building public walls. … [Read more...] about MURAGE
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MUTA-CANUM
A kennel of hounds; one of the mortuaries to which the crown was entitled at a bishop's or abbot's decease. 2 Bl. Comm. 420. … [Read more...] about MUTA-CANUM
MURAL MONUMENTS
Monuments made in walls. 2. Owing to the difficulty or impossibility of removing them, secondary evidence may be given of inscriptions on walls, fixed tables, gravestones, and the like. … [Read more...] about MURAL MONUMENTS
MUTATIO NOMINIS
Latin: In the civil law. Change of name. Cod. 9, 25. … [Read more...] about MUTATIO NOMINIS
MURDER
The crime committed where a person of sound mind and discretion (that is, of sufficient age to form and execute a criminal design and not legally "insane") kills any human creature in being (excluding quick but unborn children) and in the peace of the state or nation (including all persons except the military forces of the public enemy in time of war or battle) without any … [Read more...] about MURDER
