office; service. Those members of the government who are in the cabinet
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An infant or person who is un-der the age of legal competence. A term de-rived from the civil law, which described a person under a certain age as less than so many years. Minor riginti quinque annis, one less than twenty-five years of age. Inst. 1, 14, 2
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The party cross-exam-inlng a witness was so called, under the old system of the ecclesiastical courts
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Lat. In old Eng-lish law. Mlnlsters of the king, applied to the judges of the realm, and to all those who hold ministerial offices in the government 2 jnst. 208
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That which is done tm-der the authority of a superior; opposed to judicial; that which involves obedience to Instructions, but demands no special discre-tlon, judgment, or skill
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The process or business of ex-tracting from the earth tbe precious or valuable metals, elther in thelr native state or in their ores. In re Rollins Gold Min. Co. (D. C.) 102 Fed. 985. As ordinarily used, the term does not include the extraction from the earth of rock, marble, or slate, which is commonly described as “quarrying,” al-though coal aud salt are “mined;” nor does tt include sinking wells or shafts for petro-leum or natural gas, unless expressly so de* dared by statute, as is the case in Indiana. See State v. Indiana, etc., Mln. Co., 120 Ind. 675, 22 N. E. 778, 6 L. R. A. 579; williams v. Citizens’ Enterprise Co., 153 Ind. 496, 55 N. E. 425
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A pit or excavation in the earth, from which metallic ores or other mineral substances are taken by digging, webster; Marvel v. Merritt, 116 U. S. 11, 6 Sup. Ct 207, 29 L. Ed. 550; Murray v. Allred, 100 Tenn. 100, 43 S. W. 335, 39 L. R. A. 249, 66 Am. St Rep. 740
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In old records. To mine or dig mines. Minatov, a miner. Cowell
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In Its legal sense, “mind” means only the ability to will, to direct, to permit, or to assent. In this sense, a corporation has a mind, and exerts its mind each time that it assents to the terms of a contract McDermott v. Evening Journal Ass’n, 43 N
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In old English law. A measure of corn or grain. Cowell; Spelman
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A toll or duty paid for sell-ing corn by the mina. Cowell
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This term means merely coined mouey; aud it is not necessary that it should be marked or rolled on the edges. Leach, 708
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The name of a piece of money in the coinage of Portugal, and the Azores and Madeira islands. Its value at the custom-house, according as it is coined in the first, second, or third of the places named, is $1.12, or 83% cents, or $1
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Formerly called the “Penitentiary at Millbank.” A prison at westminster, for convicts under sentence of transportation, untll the sentence or order shall be executed, or the convict be entitled to freedom, or be removed to some other place of confinement This prison is placed under the Inspectors of prisons appointed by the secretary of state, who are a body corporate, “The Inspectors of the Millbank Prison.” The inspectors make regulations for the government thereof, subject to the approbation of the secretary of state, and yearly reports to him, to be laid before par-Uament. The secretary also appolnts a gov-ernor, chaplain, medical ofiicer, matron, etc. wharton
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or MILL-LEAT. A trench to convey water to or from a mill. St 7 Jac
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The body of soldiers in a state enrolled for dlsclpllne, but not engaged in actual service except in emergencies, os dls-tingulshed from regular troops or a standing army. See Ez parte McCants, 39 Ala. 112. worth v. Craven County, 118 N. C. 112, 24 S. B. 778; Brown v. Newark, 29 N. J. Law, 238
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1. A machine or englne for grlnd-lng, sawing, manufacturlng, etc.; also the building contalnlng such machinery. State v. Livermore, 44 N. H. 387; Lamhorn v. Bell, 18 Colo. 346, 32 Pac. 989, 20 L. R. A. 241; Home Mut Ins. Co. v. Roe, 71 wls. 33, 36 N. W. 594; IIalpin v. Insurance Co., 120 N. Y. 73, 23 N. E. 989; Southwest Missouri Light Co. v. Scheurich, 174 Mo. 235, 73 S. W. 496
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Pertaining to war or to the army; concerned with war. Also the whole body of soldiers; an army
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