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Loan, gratuitous

Loan, gratuitous, a class of bailment called commodatum in the Roman Law, and denominated by Sir William Jones a loan for use (pret a usage), to distinguish it from mutuum, a loan

Measure

s. 13 (1) of the Weights and Measures Act, 1904 (4 Edw. 7, c. 28), enacts that the denomination of a length measure must be stamped upon it, s. 28 of the Act of 1878 having already

Marshalsea prison (English).

6Vict. c. 22, amended by 11 & 12 Vict. c. 7, this prison is consolidated with others, and denominated the Queen's Prison, which see. As to the Four Courts Marshalsea (Dublin) Prison, see 37 & 38 Vict.

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Marriage

Notices (Scotland) Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 43), or 'irregular' (see below). Any minister of any denomination may perform the marriage ceremony, which must take place before two witnesses after due proclamation of banns. One

Marchet or marchetta

and Wales, as also in Scotland; and it still continues to obtain in some places. It is also denominated gwahr-merched, i.e., maid's-fee, Co. Litt. 117 b, 140 a

Mania a potu

Mania a potu, otherwise denominated delirium tremens, a disease induced from the intemperate use of spirituous liquors or certain other diffusible stimulants.

L'tare jerusalem

Lent or Easter offerings, so called from these words in the hymn of the day. They are also denominated quadragesimalia, Cowel's Law Dict.

Kenyon-Slaney Clause

shall affect any provision in a trust deed for reference to the Bishop or superior ecclesiastical or other denominational authority so far as such provision gives to the Bishop or authority the power of deciding whether the

Goods and chattels

Goods and chattels, the general denomination of things personal, as distinguished from things real, or lands, tenements, and hereditaments. See CHATTELS.

Mors dicitur ultimum supplicim

Mors dicitur ultimum supplicim [Lat.], death is denominated the extreme penalty.

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