Law Dictionary

The term "munitions debris" has the meaning given the term in volume 8 of the Department of Defense Manual Number 6055.09-M entitled "DoD Ammunitions and Explosives

the term "munitions item" means any item enumerated on the United States Munitions list 2 (without regard to whether the item is imported into or exported from the United

The term "Munitions List" means the United States Munitions List created and controlled under section 38 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2778). / The term “Muni

In international law and United States statutes, thls term includes not only ordnance, ammunition, and other material directly useful in the conduct of a war, but also whatever may

A gift; an office; a benefice, or feud; a gladiatorial show or spectacle. Calv. Lex.; Du Cange.

A toll formerly levied in England for repairing or building public walls. St. Westminster I. c. 30.

Monuments made in walls. Owing to the difficulty or impossibility of removing them, secondary evidence may be given of inscriptions on walls, fixed tables, gravestones, and the lik

Murder is a technical term, of known and settled meaning; and, when used by the legislature, it imports the same, as if they had said, that the Court shall have jurisdiction, in a

A statutory degree of murder differing in different states, usually punishable by death. See 58 Pa. 9.

a killing (other than a first-degree murder) with malice aforethought.

Under it the killing of a human being is parricide, murder, or homicide, depending, not always on the intent, but upon the relation of the parties and the circumstances under which

To murder.

Murder.

A murderer.

In old English law. During the times of the Danes, and afterwards till the reign of Edward III., mujrdrum was the killing of a man in a secret manner, and in that it differed from

The service of work and labor done by inhabitants and adjoining tenants in building or repairing the walls of a city or castle; their personal service was commuted into murage (q.

The service of work and labor done by inhabitants and adjoining tenants in building or repairing the walls of a city or castle. Cowell.

A wall.

A feudal service for the repair of walls or; fortifications. See Murage .

In old Scotch law. Murther or murder. Skene de Verb. Sign.

The term “museum” has the meaning given that term in section 273(1) of the Museum Services Act ( 20 U.S.C. 9172(1) ). / The term "museum" means the National Museum of the

The term "Museum and Library Services Board" means the National Museum and Library Services Board established under section 9105a of this title.

For the purposes of this section and sections 18f and 18f–2 of this title, the terms “museum objects” and “museum collections” mean objects that are eligible to be or are made part

The term “museum object” means an object that— (A) typically is movable; and (B) is eligible to be, or is made part of, a museum, library, or archive collection through a formal pr

For the purposes of this section and sections 18f and 18f–2 of this title, the terms “museum objects” and “museum collections” mean objects that are eligible to be or are made part

The term “mushrooms” means all varieties of cultivated mushrooms grown within the United States for the fresh market, or imported into the United States for the fresh market, that

The copyright act of March 4, 1909, provides for protection to dramatic or dramatico-musical compositions. It grants the exclusive right in the case of a musical composition to per

the terms “copy”, “fixed”, “musical work”, “phonorecord”, “reproduce”, “sound recordings”, and “transmit” mean those terms within the meaning of title 17; and

The term “musical works database” means the database described in subsection (d)(3)(E).

In old English law. A moss or marsh ground or a place where sedges grow; a place overrun with moss. Cowell.

to distinguish "Jurek" ) is to consider "for all purposes, including purposes not specifically permitted by the questions." But there was no such assurance at all.

To collect together and exhibit soldiers and their arms. To employ recruits, and put their names down in a book to enroll them. In the latter sense the terra implies that the perso

A book in which the forces are registered. Termes de la Ley.

One who superintended the muster to prevent frauds. St. 35 Eiiz. c. 4. -Muster-book. A book in which the force3 are registered. Termes de la Ley.

In maritime law. A list or account of a ship's company, required to be kept by the master or other person having care of the ship,' containing the names, ages, national.character,

A name given to the issue of an Indian and a negro. Dudley (S. C.) 174. MUTA CANUM (Law Lat.) In old EJnglish law. A pack of hounds. Spelman. See 2 How. St. Tr. 1164. MUTATIO NOMIN

A kennel of hounds; one of the mortuaries to which the crown was entitled at a bishop's or abbot's decease. 2 Bl. Comm. 426.

In French law. This term is synonymous with "change," and is particularly applied to designate the change which takes place in the property of a thing in its transmission from one

In practice. An amendment allowed to a libel, by which there is an alteration of the substance of the libel, as by propounding a new cause of action, or asking one thing istead of

A change of name.

Things change which should change.

The tale was narrated to you under a different name.

See Stand mute .

persons. One who is dumb; vide Deaf and Dumb.

i 1. To lacerate, wound, luaim. See Maim; Cruelty, 3. 3. To commit mayhem, g. v. See also Wound. 3. To render imperfect — which is something less than to " destroy: " as, to mutila

In criminal law. The depriving a man of the use af any of those limbs which may be useful to him in fight, the loss of which amounts to mayhem. 1 BL Comm. 130.

Insubordinate; disposed to mutiny; tending to incite or encourage mutiny.

In criminal law. The unlawful resistance to a superior oflicer, or the raising of commotions and disturbances on board of a ship against the authority of its commander, or in the a

In English law. A statute, annually passed, to punish mutiny and desertion, and for the better payment of the army and their quarters. It was first passed April 12, 1689. See 22 Vi

Reciprocal; reciprocally giving and receiving. Applied to contracts and relations by which reciprocal duties are imposed.

See "Account." MUTUAL AND OPEN ACCOUNT CURrent. A mutual and open account current is one consisting of credits as well as debits between the parties. 73 W. 545.

Accounts wherein demands on both sides exist at the same time. See 83 Am. Dec. 81, note. See, also, 79 N. Y. 1,. 35 Am. St. Rep. 496.

The meeting of the minds of both or all the parties to a contract; the fact that each agrees to all the terms and conditions, in the same sense and with the same meaning as the oth

The term “mutual association” means a savings association which is operating in mutual form.

See Association; Beneficial Societies; Insurance.

Same as Mutual insurance company, except where statute has created a difference. See 52 Ark. 201, 20 Am. St. Rep. 167, 12 S. W. 477.

Mutual consent Is of the essence of every contract, and therefore it must always exist, in legal contemplation, at the moment when the contract Is made. See Add. Contr. 13. It neve

To constitute a mutual contract both parties must be bound. Without this reciprocal obligation no contract can be constituted. If for any reason a contract cannot be enforced again

One the breach of which by either party will give the other a right of action against him. See 3 Ala. 330.

A knowledge on both sides of an existing debt due to one party, and a credit by the other party, founded on, and trusting to such debt, as a means of discharging it. See 146 U. S.

Credits given by two persons mutually, i. e., each giving credit to the other. It is a more extensive phrase than "mutual debts." Thus, the sum credited by one may be due at once;

A creditor holding security, who realizes upon it, does not 'owe' his debtor the amount realized. The wellunderstood concept of mutual debts does not embrace such a situation as is

Money due on both sides between two persons.

It is a fundamental rule of admiralty law that where both parties are in fault, both must contribute to make good the damage, and this rule will not be deemed to be abrogated witho

the terms “diversified”, “employee benefit plan”, “holdings”, “mutual fund”, and “unit investment trust” have the meanings given those terms under section 2640.102 of title 5, Code

The term “mutual holding company” means a corporation organized as a holding company under this subsection.

A form of life insurance in which the insurer is an association in which all the policy holders are members, and the losses are met by assessments levied upon the members either pe

A mere contract is not a share of stock and when made with a corporation or association does not necessarily connote membership in it. A policy of insurance may be a contract whose

The term “mutual insurer” means a mutual insurer organized under the laws of any State.

Reciprocity; acting in return. Add. Cont. 622; 26 Md. 37. See "Consideration."

Were the cross-demands of the parties of the same quality, or, to state it otherwise, did each claim from the other in the same right?

It is a principle of general elementary law that the estoppel of a judgment must be mutual.

An association insuring the lives of its members and assessing the survivors to pay losses. See 50 Miss. 662.

The contract was entered into through the mistake of both parties; it imposes great hardship and injustice on the appellee, and it is without consideration. These grounds, either o

Promises simultaneously made by two parties to each other, each promise being the consideration of the other. Hob. 88; 14 Mees. & W. 855; Add. Cent. 22. If one of the promises be v

the parties to a contract may release themselves, in whole or in part, from its obligations, so far as they remain executory, by mutual agreement, without fresh consideration. The

The term “mutual savings bank” means a bank without capital stock transacting a savings bank business, the net earnings of which inure wholly to the benefit of its depositors after

Wills made by two persons who leave their effecte reciprocally to the survivor.

A will jointly executed by two or more persons making reciprocal testamentary provisions in favor of each other. See 136 Am. St. Rep. 593, note.

The person who lends chat- ' tels in the contract of mutuum {g. v.)

To borrow; mutuatus, a borrowing. 2 Archb. Prac. 25.

A person who borrows personal chattels to be consumed by him, and returned to the lender in kind; the person who receives the benefit arising from the contract of mutuum. Story, Ba

A loan of money. See Gilbert, Com. Pleas 5.

Dumb.

Deaf and dumb.

A loan of personal chattels to be consumed by the borrower, and to be returned to the lender in kind and quantity; as, a loan of com, wine, or money, which are to be used or consum

Lat. To divine; to conjecture or guess; to foretell. Divinatio; a conjecturing or guessing. Nemo tenetur divinare. No man is bound to divine; that is, to have foreknowledge of a fu

The term “MWR facilities” includes— (A) MWR retail facilities, as that term is defined in section 1063(e) 1 of this title; and (B) military lodging operated by the Department of De

In this section, the term “MWR retail facilities” has the meaning given that term in section 1063 of this title . / MWR retail facilities.—The term “MWR retail facilities” has the

The term “MWR retail facility” has the meaning given that term in section 1063 of this title .

Half.

A nervous disease affecting the muscles. 244 111. 342.

Inflammation of the spinal cord. 193 111. 279; 41 111. App. 273. MYNUTE (Law Fr.) Midnight. Britt. c. 80. MYS (Law Fr. from mitter, to put). Put; sent; put in or inserted. Mys a lo

Monastic habitation; perhaps the part of a monastery set apart for purposes of hospitality or as a sanctuary for criminals. Ann. Inst Eng.

Midnight.

Same as Mis.

An occupation, business or calling. See 15 Me. 122.

A will under seal. 5 Mart. (La.) 182; 5 La. 396; 10 La. 328; 15 La. 88. So called from the fact that it is sealed N N. An abbreviation of Novelise, the Novels of Justinian; used in