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MESCROYANT

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A term used in the ancient books to designate an infidel or unbeliever. … [Read more...]

MESE

TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.

An ancient word used to signify house, probably from the French maison; it is said that by this word the buildings, curtilage, orchards and gardens will pass. … [Read more...]

MERGER

TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.

(1) Business when two companies merge or join together to become one entity. (2) (A) Where a greater and lesser thing meet, and the latter loses its separate existence and sinks into the former. It is applied to estates, rights, crimes, and torts. (B) estates. When a greater estate and less coincide and meet in one and the same person, without any intermediate estate, the less … [Read more...]

MERIDIES

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In old English law. Noon. Fleta, lib. 5, c. 5, … [Read more...]

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