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MODERATOR. A person appointed to preside at a popular meeting; sometimes he is called a chairman.MODIFICATION. A change; as the modification of a cont...

MIXED PROPERTY. That kind of property which is not altogether real nor personal, but a compound of both. Heir-looms, tomb-stones, monuments in a churc...

MITIOR SENSUS, construction. The more lenient sense. It was formerly held in actions for libel and slander, that when two or more constructions could ...

MISTAKE, contracts. An error committed in relation to some matter of fact affecting the rights of one of the parties to a contract.2. Mistakes in maki...

MISSOURI. The name of one of the new states of the United States of America. This state was admitted into the Union by a resolution of congress, appro...

MISREPRESENTATION, contracts. The statement made by a party to a contract, that a thing relating to it is in fact in a particular way, when he knows i...

MISPLEADING. Pleading incorrectly, or omitting anything in pleading which is essential to the support or defence of an action, is so called.2. Pleadin...

MISNOMER. The act of using a wrong name.2. Misnomers, may be considered with regard to contracts, to devises and bequests, and to suits or actions.3. ...

MISE, English law. In a writ of right which is intended to be tried by the grand assize, the general issue is called the mise. Lawes, Civ. Pl. 111; 7 ...

MISCASTING. By this term is not understood any pretended miscasting or mis- valuing, but simply an error in auditing and numbering. 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 4...