“Municipal” signifies that whlch belongs to a corporation or a city. The term Includes the rules or laws by which a particular district, communlty, or nation is governed. It may also mean local, par-ticular, Independent Horton ▼. Mobile School Com’rs, 43 Ala. 598
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A pub-iic corporation, created by government for political purposes, and having subordinate and local powers of legislation; e. g., a coun-ty, town, city, etc. 2 Kent, Comm. 275
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In the early ages of the feud-al law, this was the name given to the grants of land made by a king or chieftain to his followers, which were held by no certain tenure, but merely at the will of the lord. Afterwards they became life-es-tates, and then hereditary, and were called first “benefices.” and then “feuds.” See wright, Ten. 19
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Lat in Roman law. A provincial person; a countryman. This was the designation of one born in the provinces or in a city politically connected with Rome, and who, having become a Roman citizen, was entitled to hold any offices at Rome except some of the highest. In the provinces the term seems to have been applied to the freemen of any city who were eligible to the munlclpal offices. Calvln
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In old French law. A tril> ute paid by a church or monastery to their seignorlal avouds and vidames, as the price of protecting them. Steph. Lect 236
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Antic diversions in the Christmas holidays, suppressed In Queen Anne’s time
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In old English law. Peace; wheuce mundbryc, a breach of the peace
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In Scotch law. Thequan-tlty of grain or meal payable to the proprie-tor of a mill, or to the multurer, his tacks-man, for manufacturing the corns. Ersk. Inst 2, 9, 19
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In medical jurisprudence. A term applied to the complete drying up of the body. It is the result « burial in a dry, hot soil, or the exposure of the body to a continuously cold and dry at-mosphere. 15 Amer. & Eng. Enc. Law, 261
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An assemblage of many people. According to Coke it is not a word of very precise meaning; for some authori-ties hold that there must be at least ten persons to make a multitude, while others maintain that no definite number is fixed by law. Co. Litt. 257
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In Scotch law. Double distress; a name given to an action, corresponding to proceedings by way of in-terpleader, which may be bronght by a per-son in possession of goods claimed by different persons pretending a right thereto, calling the claimants and all others to settle thelr clalms, so that the party who sues may he liable only “in once and single payment** BelL
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A state of being many. That quality of a pleading which lnvolves a variety of matters or particulars; undue variety. 2 Saund. 410. A multiply-ing or increasing. Story. Eq. Pl. $ 287
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In equity pleading. The fault of improperly joining In one hill distinct and independent matters, and thereby confounding them; as, for ex-ample, the uniting in one bill of several mat-ters perfectly distinct and unconnected against one defendant, or the demand of sev-eral matters of a distinct and independent nature against several defendants, in the same bill. Story, Eq. PL S 271. And see Harrison v. Perea, 168 U. S. 311, 18 Sup. Ct 129, 42 I* Ed. 478; wales v. Newbould, 9 Mich. 56; Bovalrd ▼. Seyfang, 200 Pa. 261, 49 Atl. 958; Bolles v. Bolles, 44 N. J. Eq. 385, 14 Atl. 593; Perkins v. Baer, 95 Mo. App. 70, 68 S. W. 939; Thomas v. Mason, 8 G1U (Md.) 1; Rarcus v. Gates, 89 Fed. 783, 32 C. C. A. 337; McGlothlin v. Hemery, 44 Mo. 350
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In old English law. The state or conditlon of a mulier, or lawful issue. Co. Litt 352b. The opposite of bastardy. Blount
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L. Fr. when • man has a bastard son, and afterwards marries the mother, and by her has also a legitimate son, the elder son is bastard cignd, and the younger son is mulier puisnd
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A penalty or punishment 1m-posed on a person guilty of some ofTense. tort, or mlsdemeanor, usually a pecuniary fine or condemnation in damages. See Cook v. Mar-shall County, 119 Iowa, 384, 93 N. W. 372, 104 Am. St. Rep. 283
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Lat. (1) A woman; (2) a virgin; (3) a wife; (4) a legitimate child
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In Scotch law. The offense of setting fire to a muir or moor. 1 Brown, Ch. 78, 116
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A mulatto is defined to be “a person that is the offspring of a negress by a white man, or of a white woman by a negro.” Thurman v. State, 18 Ala. 276
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