日期：2008-03-20 MERGER, rights. Rights are said to be merged when the same person who is bound to pay is also entitled to receive. This is more properly called a confusion of rights, or extinguishment. 2. When there is a confusion of rights, and the debtor and cred... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 MERCY, Practice. To be in mercy, signifies to be liable to punishment at the discretion of the judge. MERCY, crim. law. The total or partial remission of a punishment to which a convict is subject. When the whole punishment is remitted, it is called... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 MENIAL. This term is applied to servants who live under their master's roof Vide stat. 2 H. IV., c. 21. MENSA. This comprehends all goods and necessaries for livelihood. Obsolete. MENSA ET THORO. The phrase a mensa et thoro is applied to a divorce w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 MEMORANDUM CHECK. It is not unusual among merchants, when one makes a tem- porary loan from another, to give the lender a check on a bank, with the express or implied agreement that it shall be redeemed by the maker himself, and that it shall not be... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 MEMBER OF CONGRESS. A member of the senate or house of representatives of the United States. 2. During the session of congress they are privileged from arrest, except for treason, felony, or breach of the peace; they receive a compensation of eight... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 MEDICINE CHEST. A box containing an assortment of medicines. 2. The act of congress for the government and regulation of seamen in the merchant service, sect. 8, 1 Story's L. U. S. 106, directs that every ship or vessel, belonging to a citizen or ci... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 MEASURE OF DAMAGES, prac. Those principles or rules of law which control a jury in adjusting or proportioning the damages, in certain cases. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 636. MEAN. This word is sometimes used for mesne. (q. v.) MEASON-DUE. A corruption of Maiso... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 18. One measure being thus made the standard of all the rest, they must be all equally invariable; but, in order to make this certainty perfectly sure, the following precautions have been adopted. As the temperature was found to have an influence on... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 11. As the French system of weights and measures is the most scientific plan known, and as the commercial connexions of the United States with France are daily increasing, it has been thought proper here to give a short account of that system. 12. T... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 Particular measures of length. 1st. Used for measuring cloth of all kinds. 1 nail = 2 1/4 inches 1 quarter = 4 inches 1 yard = 4 quarters 1 ell = 5 quarters. 2d. used for the height of horses. 1 hand = 4 inches. 3d. Used in measuring depths. 1 fatho... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 MAYHEMAVIT. Maimed. This is a term of art which cannot be supplied in pleadings by any other word; as, mutilavit, truncavit, c. 3 Tho. Co. Litt. 548. MAYOR, officer. The chief or executive magistrate of a city who bears this title. 2. It is generall... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 When no time is limited, the law appoints the most convenient. When the law gives anything, it gives a remedy for the same. When the foundation fails, all fails. Where two r ights concur, the more ancient shall be preferred. Where there is equal equ... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 Vicarius non habet vicaruim. A deputy cannot appoint a deputy. Branch's max. 38; Broom's max. 384; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1300. Vigilantibus et non dormientibus serviunt leges. The laws serve the vigilant, not those who sleep upon their rights. 2 Bouv. In... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 Verba generalia generaliter sunt intelligenda. General words are to be generally understood. 3 Co. Inst. 76. Verba ganeralia restringuntur ad habilitatem rei vel personae. General words must be confined or restrained to the nature of the subject or... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 Unumquodque dissolvatur eo modo quo colligatur. Everything is dissolved by the same mode in which it is bound together. Usury is odious in law. Ut paena ad paucos, metus ad omnes perveniat. That by the punishment of a few, the fear of it may affect... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 Ubi quid generaliter conceditur, in est haec exceptio, si non aliquid sit contra jus fasque. Where a thing is concealed generally, this exception arises, that there shall be nothing contrary to law and right. 10 Co. 78. ubi quis delinquit ibi puniet... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 Ubi jus, ibi remedium. Where there is a right, there is a remedy. 1 T. R. 512; Co. Litt. 197, b; 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 2411; 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 3726. Ubi jus incertum, ibi jus nullum. Where the law is uncertain, there is no law. Ubi lex aliquem cogit osten... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 Tonte exception non surveille tend prendre la place du principe. Every exception not watched tends to assume the place of the principle. Tractent fabrilia fabri. Let smiths perform the work of smiths. 3 Co. Epist. Traditio loqui facit chartam. Deliv... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 Talis non est eadem, nam nullum simile est idem. What is like is not the same, for nothing similar is the same. 4 Co. 18. Tantum bona valent, quantum vendi possunt. Things are worth what they will sell for. 3 Co. Inst. 305. Terminus annorum certus d... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 Statutum affirmativum non derogat communi legi. An affirmative stature does not take from the common law. Jenk. Cent. 24. Statutum generaliter est intelligendum quaudo verva statuti sunt specialia, ratio autem generalis. When the words of a statute... 阅读全文>>