Law Dictionary

Inexcusable detention for the purpose of illegally extracting evidence from an accused, and the successful extraction of such inculpatory statements by continuous questioning for m

a confession is inadmissible if made during illegal detention due to failure promptly to carry a prisoner before a committing magistrate, whether or not the 'confession is the resu

in Engilsh prac tice. Under the judicature act of 1875, daims for the price of goods sold, for money lent, for arrears of rent, etc., and other claims where money is directly payab

He that gives a mortgage.

An abbreviation for "Middle District," in reference to the division of the United States into judicial districts. Also an abbreviation for "Doctor of Medicine."

A mother.

For purposes of this section, the term "mead" means a wine— (i) containing not more than 0.64 gram of carbon dioxide per hundred milliliters of wine, except that the Secr

A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay. Webster. A tract which lies above the shore, and is overflowed by spring and extraordinary tides only, and yield

In this subsection, the term “meal program” means a program established under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 ( 42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.) or the Richard B. Russell National School Lu

A rent formerly paid in meal.

See "Mesne."

To wind, as a river or stream. Webster. The winding or bend of a stream. To survey a stream according to its meanders or windings. Rev. St. Wis. c. 34, § 1; 2 Wis. 317.

In the original survey by the government in 1853 the lake was meandered, which meant under the instructions to surveyors then in force that it was a lake or deep pond.

A line designed to point out the sinuosities of the bank or shore, and a means of ascertaining the quantity of land in the fraction which is to be paid for by the purchaser. 241 11

Meander-lines are run in surveying fractional portions of the public lands bordering upon navigable rivers, not as boundaries of the tract, but for the purpose of defining the sinu

the mean high-tide line which, as the Court of Appeals said, is neither the spring tide nor the neap tide, but a mean of all the high tides

the average elevation of all the high tides occurring over a period of 18.6 years.

See Construction; Innuendo; PUEPORT.

Deportability on the ground of Communist Party membership requires more than the mere voluntary listing of a person's name on Party rolls; the alien must have had a 'meaningful ass

the term “meaningful disruption”— (A) means a change in production that is reasonably likely to lead to a reduction in the supply of a drug by a manufacturer that is more than negl

due process requires, at a minimum, that absent a countervailing state interest of overriding significance, persons forced to settle their claims of right and duty through the judi

all through the Constitution, — and that is a "statute "of the United States.

the average elevation of all the daily lower low tides occurring over a period of 18.6 years.

A middle between two extremes, whether applied to persons, things or time,

1. The instrument or agency through which an end or purpose is accomplished. 2, Resources; available property; money or property, as an available instrumentality for effecting a pu

all through the constitution, and that is 'a statute of the United States.' Tennessee v. Davis, 100 U.S. 264.

The term “means of conveyance” means any personal property used for or intended for use for the movement of any other personal property. / The term “means of conveyance” means any

The term “means of emission limitation” means a system of continuous emission reduction (including the use of specific technology or fuels with specified pollution characteristics)

the term “means of identification” means any name or number that may be used, alone or in conjunction with any other information, to identify a specific individual, including any—

Wherever inquiry is a duty, the party bound to make it is affected with knowledge of all which he would have discovered had he performed the duty. Means of knowledge with the duty

All those resources from which the necessaries and comforts of life are or may be supplied, such' as lands, goods, salaries, wages, or other sources of income. Meidel v. Anthis, 71

Being an original and reserved power, and the judicial officers appointed under it being a means or instrumentality employed to carry it into effect, the right and necessity of its

“Means or instrumentality of interstate commerce” includes any facility of a national securities exchange. / “Means or instrumentality of interstate commerce” includes any facility

The term “means-tested Federal benefit program” means any of the following: (i) The supplemental security income program under title XVI of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1381

or MESE (Norman French). A house. Litt. §§ 74, 251.

Norman-French for a house. Litt §§ 74, 251

A house.

A corruption of Maiaon do Dieu.

See Weight, 1; Inspection, 1; MORE OR Less. Measure of damages. The rule by which damage is to be estimated.* See Damages.

A means or standard for computing amount; a certain quantity of something, taken for a unit, and which expresses a relation with other quantities of the same thing.

For purposes of this subparagraph, the term “measurement period” means, with respect to the taxable year of the acquiring person for which the credit is determined, any period of t

The unanimous opinion of the court is, that the price of the article at the time it was to be delivered, is the measure of damages.

the measure was the present value of the rent reserved less the present rental value of the remainder of the term

where there is no general market, or the merchandise is of a peculiar character and not staple, it is necessary that some other criterion be taken than the difference between the a

The term “measure of energy consumption” means energy use, energy efficiency, estimated annual operating cost, or other measure of energy consumption.

It makes the measure of recovery the extent of the injury, and the injury, it is clear, is not the gross earnings of an office, but such earnings less... 'the actual cost of obtain

In the ordinary sense of the word, "measure" would mean something by comparison with which we may ascertain what is the value of anything. When we consider, further, that value its

An officer In the city of London, who measured woolen clothes, coals, etc,

In old English law. A duty which some persons exacted, by letters patent, for every piece of cloth made, besides alnage. Now abolished.

The term “meat articles” means carcasses, meat and meat food products of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, that are capable of use as human food.

The term “meat broker” means any person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of buying or selling carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, or meat food products of cattle, she

The term “meat food product” means any product capable of use as human food which is made wholly or in part from any meat or other portion of the carcass of any cattle, sheep, swin

The term “meat food products” means all products and byproducts of the slaughtering and meat-packing industry—if edible;

The term “meat item” means— (A) a portion of meat; and (B) a meat food product.

The term “mechanic’s lienor” means any person who under local law has a lien on real property (or on the proceeds of a contract relating to real property) for services, labor, or m

Having relation to or produced or accomplished by, the use of mechanism or machinery. Used chiefly in patent law. See compound terms infra. —Mechanical equivalent. A device which m

A device which may be substituted or adopted, instead of another, by any person skilled in the particular art from his knowledge of the art, and which is competent to perform the s

The term “mechanical licensing collective” means the entity most recently designated as such by the Register of Copyrights under subsection (d)(3).

The term “mechanical licensing collective budget” means a statement of the financial position of the mechanical licensing collective for a fiscal year or quarter thereof based on e

A mechanism transmitting power or motion from a driving part to a part to be driven ; a combination and arrangement of mechanical parts intended for the translation or transformati

See Process.

One closely I allied to or incidental to some kind of manufacturing business; Cowling v. Iron Co., 65 Minn. 2G3, 68 N. W. 48, 33 L. R. A. 508, 60 Am. St. Rep. 471. Mining of iron i

The term “mechanical restraint” means the use of devices as a means of restricting a resident's freedom of movement.

the change with the existing knowledge in the art involved simply mechanical skill, which is not patentable.

The title to this act shows its policy and intention. It is to secure, to 'mechanics and others, payment for labor done and materials found;' and the persons enumerated in the firs

A workman who with the use of tools shapes and unites materials into some sort of machine or structure; an artisan.

The term “Medal of Honor recipient” has the meaning given that term in section 1074h(c) of this title . / The term “Medal of Honor recipient” means a person who has been awarded a

The word medals in a bequest will pass curiohs pieces of current coin kept by the testator with his medals. 3 Atk. 202; Wins. Ex. 1205.

In old records. A house or place where metheglin or mead, was made.

In old English law. A bribe or reward; a compensation given in exchange where the things exchanged were not of equal value. Cowell.

In Spanish law. Halfyearly profits of land. 5 Tex. 34, 79.

the arguments and votes of jurors, the media concludendi, are secrets, protected from disclosure unless the privilege is waived.

Men of ordinary and weak condition.

The term “median family income” means for any year— (A) the median family income both calculated and reported by the Bureau of the Census in the then most recent year; and (B) if n

The term “median income” means, with respect to an area, the unadjusted median family income for the area, as determined and published annually by the Director. / The term “median

Midnight. MEDIAE ET INFIRMAE MANUS HOMInes. Men of a middle and base condition. Blount.

A descent wherein another ancestor has intervened between the ancestor and the heir. See 6 Pet. (U. S.) 102, 8 L. E'd. 334.

Through the medium of the father. See 6 Pet. (U. S.) 102, 8 L. Ed. 334.

A man of middle fortune.

The term “media of mass communications” includes television, radio, cable television, multipoint distribution service, direct broadcast satellite service, and other services, the l

The term “media organization” means a person or entity engaged in disseminating information to the general public through a newspaper, magazine, other publication, radio, televisio

Z. In old English law. Mean; intermediate; between two.

Remotely related; indirectly connected; incident to some other; opposed to immediate: as, mediate — descent, powers, qq. v. See Immediate.

A descent may be said to be mediate or immediate, in regard to the mediate or immediate descent of the estate or right; or it may be said to be mediate or immediate, in regard to t

See Immediate Descent.

Those incident to primary powers, given by a principal to his agent. For example, the general authority given to collect, receive, and pay debts due by or to the principal is a pri

Secondary evidence (g. v.).

The act of some mutual friend of two contending parties, who brings them to agree, compromise, or settle their disputes. Vattel, Dr. des Gens, liv. 2, c. 18, § 328.

Third. The term “Mediation Board” means the National Mediation Board created by this chapter.

One who interposes between two contending parties, with their consent, for the purpose of assisting them in settling their differences. Sometimes this term is applied to an officer

In English law. Six persons authorized by statute (27 Edw. III. St. 2, c. 24), who, upon any question arising among merchants relating to unmerchantable wool, or undue packing, etc

The term “Medicaid” means the program to provide grants to States for medical assistance programs established under title XIX of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.).

The term “medicaid applicable income level” means, with respect to a child, the effective income level (expressed as a percent of the poverty line) that has been specified under th

The term "Medicaid cap increase" means, with respect to a specified territory and fiscal year, any increase in the amounts otherwise determined under this subsection for

The term “medicaid-eligible” means, with respect to a child, a child who is entitled to medical assistance under a state 1 plan approved under this subchapter.

The term “medicaid managed care organization” means a health maintenance organization, an eligible organization with a contract under section 1395mm of this title or a Medicare+Cho

The term “Medicaid managed care program” means a program under sections 1396b(m), 1396d(t), and 1396u–2 of this title and includes a managed care program operating under a waiver u

The term “medicaid program” means the program of medical assistance under a State plan or under a waiver of the plan under title XIX of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1396 et

In this subsection and subsection (a)(3)(F), the term “Medicaid provider” means— (A) an eligible professional (as defined in paragraph (3)(B))— (i) who is not hospital-based and ha

The term “Medicaid taxable unit” means a unit that is being taxed within a health care related tax that is applicable to the program under this subchapter. Such term includes a uni