In Spanish law. Movables; all sorts of personal property, white, New Recop. b. 1, tlt. 3, c. 1, § 2
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one who moves; one who makes a motion before a court; the applicant for a rule or order
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Making a motion on a day which is not mo-tlon day, in virtue of having argued a special case; used in the exchequer after it became obsolete in the queen’s bench, wharton*
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Things movable; movable or personal chattels, which may be annexed to or attendant on the person of the owner, and carried about with him from one part of the world to another. 2 Bl. Comm. 387. Movables consist—First, ot Inanimate things, as goods, plate, money, jewels, implemeuts of war, garments, and the like, or vegetable productions, as the fruit or other parts of a plant when severed from the body of lt, or the whole plant itself when severed from the ground; secondly, of anlmals, whlch have in themselves a principle and power of motion. 2 Steph. Comm. 67
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1. To make an application to a court for a rule or order
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By statute In some states, the mouth of a river or creek, which empties in-to another river or creek, is defined as the point where the middle of the channel of each Intersects the other. Pol. Code Cal. 1903, S 3908; Rev. St. Ariz. 1901, par. 931
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That which can be changed in place, as movable property; or in time, aa movable feasts or terms of court See wood v. George, 6 Dana (Ky.) 343; Strong v. white, 19 Conn. 245; Goddard v. winchell. 86 Iowa, 71, 52 N. W. 1124, 17 L. R. A. 788, 41 Am. St. Rep. 481
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Lat. of his own motion. The commencing words of a certain kind of papal rescript
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The dress or apparel worn by mourners at a funeral and’for a time aft-erwards. Also the expenses paid for such apparel
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In praotice. An occasional application to a court by the parties or their counsel, in order to obtain some rule or order, which becomes necessary either in the progress of a cause, or summarily and whol-ly unconnected with plenary proceedings. Citizens* SL R. Co. v. Reed, 28 Ind. App. 629, 63 N. E. 770; Low v. Cheney, 3 How. Prac. (N. V.) 287; People v. Ah Sam, 41 Cal. 645; In re Jetter, 78 N. Y. 601
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The inducement, cause, or reason why a thing is done. An act legal in itself, and which violates no right, is not actionable on account of the motive which actuated lt. Chatfield v. wilson, 5 Am. Law Reg. (O. S.) 528
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A customary servlce or payment at the mote or court of the lord, from which some were exempted by charter or privilege. Cowell
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A woman who has borne a child; a female parent; correlative to “son” or “daughter.” The term may also include a woman who is pregnant See Howard v. People, 185 111. 552, 57 N. E. 441; Latshaw v. State, 156 Ind. 194, 59 N. E. 471
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In Spanish law. Stray-ed goods; estrays, white, New Recop. b. 2, tit 2, c. 6
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Sax. A meeting; an assembly. Used in composition, as burgmote, folkmote, etc
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A dead pledge; a mortgage, (q. v,;) a pledge where the profits
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Lat Dead. So in sheriff’s return, mortwu est, be is dead
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In ecclesiastical law. ▲ burial-place. A kind of ecclesiastical heriot, being a customary gift of the second best living animal belonging to the deceased, claimed by and due to the
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Tables for estimating the probable duration of the life of a party at a given age. Gallagher v. Mar* ket St. Ry. Co., 67 Cal. 16, 6 Pac. 871, 51 Am. Rep. 680
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Lat By reason of death; in contemplation of death. Thus used in the phrase “Donatio mortis causa,” (q. v
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A term applied to denote the alienation of lands or tenements to any corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal. These purchases havlng been chiefly made hy rellglous houses, in consequence of which lands became perpetually inherent in one dead hand, this has occasioned the general appellation of “mortmain” to be applled to such alienations. 2 BL Comm. 268; Co. Lltt 2b; Perln v. Carey, 24 How. 495, 16 L. Ed. 701
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In Scotch law. A term nearly synonymous with “mortmain.” Bell. Lands are said to be mortified for a charitable purpose
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Sax. Murder, answering exactly to the French “assassinat” or “muertre de ffuct-apens
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