Pertaining to merchants or their buslness; havlng to do with trade
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A market. An old form of the latter word common in Scotch law, formed from the Latin “mercatum
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A collection or institute of the earliest laws of anclent India. The work is of very remote antiquity
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Lat. To lie; to assert a falsehood. Calvin.; 3 Bulst 260
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Relating to or existing in the mind; intellectual, emotional, or psychic, aa distinguished from bodily or physical
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In the civil law. A measurer of land; a surveyor. Dig. 11, 6; Id. 50, 6, 6; Cod. 12, 28
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In the clvll law. A money-changer or dealer in money. Dig. 2, 14, 47, 1
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Parsonages or spiritual liv-lngs united to the tables of religious houses, and called “mensal benefices” amongst the canonists. Cowell
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Lat. In the civil and old Eng-llsh law. A mouth. Mcnsis ret it us, the pro-hibited month; fence-month, (q. v
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Lat. Mind; intention; meaning; understanding; wilt
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Lat. Patrimony or goods and necessary things for livelihood. Jacob. A table; the table of a money-changer. Dig. 2, 14, 47
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In old Scotch law. A stock-horn; a horn made of wood, “with circles and glrds of the same.” Skene
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A servant of the lowest or-der; more strictly, a domestic servant living under his master’s roof. Boniface v. Scott, 3 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 354
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Men who used in former days to ply about courts of law, so called from their manner of makiug known their occupation, (i. e., hy a straw iu one of their shoes,) recognized by the name of “straw-shoes.” An advocate or lawyer who wanted a convenient witness knew by these signs where to meet with one, and the col-loquy between the parties was brief. “Don’t you remember?” said the advocate; to which the ready answer was, “To be sure I do.” “Then come into court and swear it.” And straw-shoes went into court aud swore. Ath-ens abounded in straw-shoes. Quart. Rev. vol. 33, p. 344
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A threat; the declaration or show of a disposition or determination to inflict an evil or injury upon another. Cum-ming v. State, 99 Ga. 662, 27 S. E. 177; Mor-rill v. Nightingale, 93 Cal. 452, 28 Pac. 1068, 27 Am. St Rep. 207
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Committing anything to memory. Used to describe the act of one who listens to a public representation of. a play or drama, and then, from his recollection of Its scenes, Incidents, or language, reproduces It, substantially or in part, in der-ogation of the rights of the author. See 5 Term R. 245; 14 Amer. Law Reg. (N. S.) 207
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Mental capaclty; the mental power to review and recognize tbe successive states of consciousness in thelr consecutive order. Thls word, as used in Jurisprudence to denote one of the psychological elements necessary in the making of a valid will or contract or the commission of a crime, irn-plies the mental power to conduct a consecutive train of thought, or an orderly planning of affairs, by recalling correctly the past states of the mlnd and past events, and ar-rangiug them in thelr due order of sequence and in their logical relations with the events and mental states of the present
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A document presented to a legislative body, or to the executive, by one or more individuals, containing a petition or a representation of facts
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Lat. From memory; by or from recollection. Thus, memoriter proof of a written Instrument is such as is fur-nished by the recollection of a witness who had seen and known it
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