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MERTON, STATUTTE OF. A statute so called, because the parliament or rather council, which enacted it, sat at Merton, in Surrey. It was made the 20 Hen...

MERGER, rights. Rights are said to be merged when the same person who is bound to pay is also entitled to receive. This is more properly called a conf...

MERCY, Practice. To be in mercy, signifies to be liable to punishment at the discretion of the judge.MERCY, crim. law. The total or partial remission ...

MENIAL. This term is applied to servants who live under their master's roof Vide stat. 2 H. IV., c. 21.MENSA. This comprehends all goods and neces...

MEMORANDUM CHECK. It is not unusual among merchants, when one makes a tem- porary loan from another, to give the lender a check on a bank, with the ex...

MEMBER OF CONGRESS. A member of the senate or house of representatives of the United States.2. During the session of congress they are privileged from...

MEDICINE CHEST. A box containing an assortment of medicines.2. The act of congress for the government and regulation of seamen in the merchant service...

MEASURE OF DAMAGES, prac. Those principles or rules of law which control a jury in adjusting or proportioning the damages, in certain cases. 1 Bouv. I...

18. One measure being thus made the standard of all the rest, they must be all equally invariable; but, in order to make this certainty perfectly sure...

11. As the French system of weights and measures is the most scientific plan known, and as the commercial connexions of the United States with France ...