In Norman law. Moneyage. A tax or tribute of one shilling on every hearth, payable to the duke every three years, in consideration that he should not alter the coln. Hale, Com. Law, 148, and note
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Public pawnbrok-lng establishments; institutions established by government, in some European countries, for lending small sums of money on pledgee of personal property. In France they are called “monts de piett.”
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1. Anything by which the memory of a person or an event is preserved or perpetuated. A tomb where a dead body has been deposited. Mead v. Case, 33 Barb. (N. Y.) 202; In re ogden, 25 R. I. 373, 55 Att 933
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A box in which relics are kept; also a muster of soldiers. Cow’ell
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In Spanish law. Forests or woods, white, New Recop. b. 2, tit 1, c. 6, I 1
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A prodigious birth; a hu-man birth or offspring not havlng the shape of mankind, which cannot be heir to any land, albeit it be brought forth in marriage. Bract fol. 5; Co. Lltt 7, 8; 2 BL Comm. 246
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In medical jurlspru-dence. Deraugement of a single faculty of the mind, or with regard to a particular sub-Ject, the other faculties being in regular ex-ercise. See Insanity
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In commercial law. A privilege or pecullar advantage vested in one or more persons or companies, consisting in the exclusive right (or power) to carry on a partlcular buslness or trade, manufacture & partlcular. article, or control the sale of the whole supply of a partlcular commodity
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A special treatise upon a particular subject of limited range; a treatise or commentary upon a particular branch or division of a general subject
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Tbe marriage of one wife only, or the state of such as are restrained to a single wife, webster
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A character or cipher composed of one or more letters interwoven, beiug an abbreviation of a name
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A monarch who governs alone; an absolute governor
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In praotice. A monition is a formal order of the court commanding something to be done by tbe person to whom it is directed, and who is called the “person monished.” Thus, when money is decreed to be paid, a monition may he obtained com-manding its payment. In ecclesiastical pro-cedure, a monition is an order monishing or warning the party complained against to do or not to do a certain act “under pain of the law and contempt thereof.” A monition may also be appended to a sentence indicting a punishment for a past offense; in that case the monition forbids the repetition of tlie offense. Sweet
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Communications of warning and admonition sent from an ecclesiastical judge, upon information of scandal and abuses within the cognizance of his court
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or MONEYEERS. Ministers of the mint; also bankers. Cowell
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A general, indefinite term for the measure and representative of value; currency; the circulating medium; cash
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A dealer or seller. It is seldom or never used alone, or otherwise than after the name of any commodity, to express a seller of such commodity
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A book glvlng an ac-count of monasteries, convents, and religious houses
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