Mere
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Anderson (1889), Stimson (1881), Abbott (1879)
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
L. Fr. Mother. Æle, mere, fille, grandmother, mother, daughter. Britt, c. 89. En ventre so mere, in its mother's womb.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Famous; great; noted; as 271mere, all famous, Gibs. Camd.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
See Motion, 1; Right.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
sax. A fenny place.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Occurs, u.sed substantially in the vernacular sense, in some technical phrases. Mere motion. The free and voluntary act of a party himself, done without the suggestion or influence of another person, is said to be done of his mere motion, ex mero motu, q. v. The phrase is used in English letters-patent, whereby the king grants, " of his especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion " (ea: speciali gratia, certa scientia, et mero motu), his license, power, and authority to the patentee to use and enjoy, exclusively, the new invention. It is used of an interference of the courts of justice, when the judge voluntarily objects to an irregularity in the proceedings, though no objection has been taken to the informality by the plaintiff or defendant in the suit. Mere right. The right of property which a person may have in any thing, without having either possession or even the right of possession, is sometimes spoken of under the name of the mere right.