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The doctrine of merger (even admitting that a judgment against one of several joint obligors would terminate the whole obligation, so that a distinct action could not afterwards be

The merger eliminates one of the participating corporations from the market while a joint venture creates a new competitive force therein.

If there be any one principle of law settled beyond all question, it is this, that whensoever a cause of action, in the language of the law, transit in rem judicatam, and the judgm

The annihilation of one estate in another, when a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one and the same person without any intermediate estate. See 99 Am. St. Rep. 153, n

Whatever related to any conversations, or negotiations on the subject, previous to the consummation of the contract, were merged in the final conclusion of the contract; according

The rule that prior negotiations are merged in the contract is general in its nature... Previous and contemporary transactions and facts may be very properly taken into considerati

all previous negotiations and verbal statements are merged and excluded when the parties assent to a written instrument as expressing the agreement

The term “merger transaction” has the meaning determined under section 1828(c)(3) of this title .

The name of this country. The United States, now twenty-six in number, are Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Ken-,tucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryl

Noon. practice and matters resting in the diaoietion of the court. 4 How. Pr. (N. Y.) 839! Id. 432; 2 Daly (N. Y.) 208. A cause of action or defense on the merits is one resting on

He justly loses the protection of the law who attempts to subvert it.

Possessing or characterized by "merit" in the legal sense of the word. See Merits. —Meritorious cause of action. This description is sometimes applied to a person with whom the gro

This description is sometimes applied to a person with whom the ground of action, or the consideration, originated or from whom it moved. For exampie, where a cause of action accru

Such settlements, though voluntary, are founded upon a meritorious consideration, and will be upheld and enforced in equity against the husband.

See Detense.

“merit principles” means the principles set out in section 2301(b) of title 5 ;

the various elements which enter into or qualify the plaintiff's right to the relief sought; where a plaintiff seeking preventive relief lacks standing, the appropriate decree is a

AFFIDAVIT OF. Under the practice in some jurisdictions, an affidavit of merits is required to be filed by defendant in order to prevent the signing of judgment by default; Young v.

See "Ex Mere Motu."

A fenny place. Cowell.

An adjudication or recovery in a former action. See Res Juvi-

A lake; also a marsh or fen-land.

A church calendar or rubric. Cowell.

STATUTE OF. An ancient English ordinance or statute (20 Hen. III. [1253]), which took its name from the place in the county of Surrey where parliament sat when it was enacted. 2 In

STATUTE OF. An ancient English ordinance or statute, 20 Hen. III. (1235), which took its name from the place in the county of Surrey where parliament sat when it was enacted. Its p

Mere; naked.

Lat. Merchandise; movable articles that are bought and sold; articles of trade.

Merchandise is whatever can be sold. See 3 Met. (Mass.) 367.

Merchandise is whatever can be sold. Coin. 355 ; 3 Wood. Leet. 263.

Misadventure, which see.

In Fr. Apostates; unbelievers.

Used in our ancient books. An unbeliever.

I. fr. Suspected of crime; guilty.

An ancient word used to signify "house;" probably from the French maison. It is said that by this word the buildings, curtilage, orchards, and gardens will pass. Co. Litt. 56.

meas, meason, 6\a.,fr. A house.

I. fr. A misdeed; an offense.

I. fr. A wrong-doer; a criminal.

The estate of a mesne tenant. commencement and the end, as it relates to time. In England, the word "mesne" also applies to a dignity; those persons who hold lordships or manors of

or MESNALITY. A manor held under a superior lord. The estate of a mesne. T. L.; Whart Diet.; Brown v. Butler, 4 Phila. (Pa.) 71; 14 East 234.

A manor held under a superior lord. The estate of a mesne.

WRIT OF. The name of an ancient writ, which lies when the lord paramount distrains on the tenant paravail. The latter shall have a writ of mesne against the lord who is mesne. Fitz

WRIT OF. The name of an ancient and now obsolete writ, which lies when the lord paramount distrains on the tenant para vail: the latter shall have a writ of mesne against the lord

If A. grant a lease of land to B., and B. assign his interest to C-, and C. in his turn assign his interest therein to D., in this case the assignments so made by B. and C. would b

A conveyance between the last and a prior one.

An encumbrance prior in right to one and subsequent to another.

An intermediate charge, burden, or liability; an incumbrance which has been created or has attached to property between two given periods.

A middle or intermediate lord. 2 Bl. Comm. 59; 1 Steph. Comm. 168, 174. See "Mesne."

Those in which the officer is directed to levy the process upon property of one of the parties to the litigation, sufficient to satisfy the demand against him, without describing a

The value of land during the period of a wrongful possession thereof; that is to say, from the time of wrongful entry to dispossession. 3 Bl. Comm. 205. The net rental value or val

An action of trespass brought to recover profits derived from land, while the possession of it has been improperly withheld; that is, the yearly value of the premises. Worthington

See Writ of Mesne .

I. fr. To misbehave; to do amiss; to offend; literally, to mistaka

(Law Fr.) Mistake; a mistaking. MESQUE (Law Ft.) Except; unless. Fet. Assaver, § 23.

Same as Misprison.

Unless; except.

See Teleobaph.

PRESIDENT’S. The annual communication of the President of the United States to congress, pursuant to art. II. sec. 3, of the constitution. It is usually delivered at the commenceme

The method of communicating between the sovereign and the house of parliament. A written message under the royal sign manual is brought by a member of the house, being a minister o

In old English law. A chief servant in husbandry; a bailiff.

In Danish law. A certificate of admeasurement granted by competent authority at home port of vessel. Jacobsen. Sea Laws, 50.

An employe or ofl Scer whose duty is to bear messages or communications. — I — In Eng,lish Law. An officer who takes possession of an insolvent or bankrupt estate.

An association engaged in the business of furnishing messengers for hire to any who may desire them. Such associations are held to be common carriers. 31 Abb. N. C. 147; 6 Misc. Ee

One who said mass; a priest.

I. A harvest or crop. In Scots law. Messis sementem sequitur: the crop belongs to [follows] the sower.

The harvest follows the sowing. Ersk. Inst. 174. 26; Bell, Diet.

mesuagium, I. I. In old English law. A messuage; a house. Messnagium sire domns: a messuage or housa

A term used in conveyancing, and nearly synonymous with "dwelling house." A grant of a messuage with the to it, as also its curtilage, garden, and orchard, together with the close

I. fr. Mystery; handicraft; trade; occupation.

The offspring of a Spaniard or other white person and an American Indian. Worcester.

A boundary.

An error in computation of time,

the terms “data asset”, “machine-readable”, “metadata”, and “open license” have the meanings given the terms in section 3502 of title 44 ; and / the term “metadata” means structura

the term "metadata for geospatial data" means information about geospatial data, including the content, source, vintage, accuracy, condition, projection, method of collec

the term “metal-bearing materials” means metal-bearing ores and other metal-bearing materials provided for in chapter 26 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, met

“metal casting industry” or “industry” means the industries identified by codes numbered 3321, 3322, 3324, 3325, 3363, 3364, 3365, 3366, and 3369, in the Standard Industrial Classi

The term “metal halide ballast” means a ballast used to start and operate metal halide lamps.

The term “metal halide lamp” means a high intensity discharge lamp in which the major portion of the light is produced by radiation of metal halides and their products of dissociat

The term “metal halide lamp fixture” means a light fixture for general lighting application designed to be operated with a metal halide lamp and a ballast for a metal halide lamp.

A metal.

See Assayee; Coin; ManurACTDRE; Mineral; Ore.

A residence.

One who works a farm for half of the crops.

A system of agricultural holdings, under which the land is divided, in small farms, among single families, the landlord generally supplying the stock which the agricultural system

Corn paid out for labor.

A measure of corn given by a lord to customary tenants as a reward for labor.

A rent paid in victuals.

Mere evidence of a tradition that Indians worshipped a meteorite, and treated it as a medicine rock belonging to the medicine men of the tribe, held insufficient to justify an infe

An instrument of measurement; as a coal-meter, a gas-meter, a land-meter.

The boundary lines of land, with their terminal points and angles. Courses and distances control, unless there is matter of more certain description, e. g., natural monuments. 42 M

or METEYARD. A staff of a certain length wherewith measures are taken.

A Staff of a certain length wherewith measures are taken.

In this section, the term “methamphetamine precursor chemicals” means the chemicals ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine, including each of the salts, optical isomers

the term “methane” means either natural gas (as defined in section 3301(1) of this title), gas derived from coal, liquefied natural gas, or any gaseous transportation fuel produced

The term “methane hydrate” means— (A) a methane clathrate that is in the form of a methane-water ice-like crystalline material and is stable and occurs naturally in deep-ocean and

Sax. Speech; discourse. Mathlian, to speak; to harangue. Anc. lust. Eng.

a method of doing or conducting business." § 273(a)(3).

counseling concerning abortion." "Ibid." The court found this construction consistent with the legislative history and observed that "[a]ppellants' contrary view of the legislative

the term “methods of operation” means any method by which a person conducts or proposes to conduct export trade,

An irresistible thirst for intoxicating drink, followed by periodical sprees. See 89 Ala. 1, 7 L. R. A. 426, 7 South. 7, 183.

The unit of measure in the "metric system" of weights and measurea It is a measure of length, being the ten-millionth part of the dlstance from the equator to the north pole, and e