Metropolitan
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In English law
One of the titles of an archbishop. Derived from the circumstance that archbishops were consecrated at first in the metropolis of a province.
4 Inst. 94.
METUS (Lat.) A rsiasonable fear of an intolerable evil, as of loss of life or limb, such as may fall upon a brave man (w Vum constantem). 1 Bl. Comm. 131; Calv. Lex. And this kind of fear alone will invalidate a contract as entered into through duress. Calv. Lex. In a more general sense, fear. WEU (Law Fr.) Moved; commenced, as a suit. Kelham; Britt. c.
126.