Mise

The issue in a writ of right When the tenant in a writ of right pleads that his title is better than the demandant's, he is said to join the mt'se on the mere right. Also expenses; costs; disbursements in an action.

— Mise-money. Money paid by way of contract or composition to purchase any liberty, etc. Blount. inisera est servitus, uhi jus est vagum aut incertum. It is a wretched state of slavery which subsists where the law is vague or uncertain. 4 Inst. 245; Broom, Max. 150.

I fr. In old English tions, particularly in Misera est servitns, ubi It is a wretched state certain [unknown]. Miserabile deposituin, posit; one made suc^ as insurrection,

The issue in a writ of right. When the tenant in a writ of right pleads that his title is better than the demandant’s, he is said to join the mise on the mere right.

The principal use of this ■word is, in the old law of pleading, to signify the issue joined in a real action, particularly in a writ of right. Other meanings are given. Mise signities a gift or customary present formerly made by the people of Wales to a new king or prince, on his entrance into that principality; a tax or tallage; costs and expenses; a writ of right so Bailed; the issue in a writ of right; cast, or put upon; a messuage or tenement. Mozley If TV. Mise is a law term signifying expenses, and it is so commonly used in the entries of judgments, in personal actions; as, when the plaintiff recovers, the judgment is quod recuperet damna sua to such a value, and pro misis et custagiis, for costs and charges, so much, &c. It has another signification, as a word of art, appropriated to a writ of right, so called because both parties have put themselves upon the mere right, to be tried upon the grand assise; so that what in all other actions is called an issue in a writ of right is termed a mise; but if in the writ of right a collateral point be tried, there it is called an issue. To join the mise upon the mere right is as much as to say to join the mise upon the clear right; i.e., to join upon this point, which hath the more right, the tenant or demandant. Jc Kob.

in the English law, in aj writ of right which is intended to be tried by the grand assize, the issue is called the mise. pales awes Civ. Pl. 111. This word also signifies expenses, and it is so commonly used in the entries of] judgments in personal actions; as when the plaintiffrecovers, the judgment is quod recuperet damna sua for such value, and pro misis et custagits for costs and charges for so much, &c.