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Mistake

Mistake, misconception, error. Money paid under a mistake of a material fact, as where a person discounts a forged bill,...

Mens rea, a guilty mind. See ACTUS NON FACIT REUM, NISI MENS SIT REA. Although prima facie and as a...

Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the...

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Malice [fr. malitia, Lat.], a formed design of doing mischief to another, technically called malitia pr'cogitata, or malice prepense or...

Maintenance, an officious intermeddling in a suit which in no wise concerns one, by assisting either party with money or...

Licence and lease, A licence confers a right to do or continue to do something in or upon immovable property...

Licence [fr. licentia, Lat.], a permission given by one man to another to do some act which without such permission...

Lex nil frustra facit [Lat.], the law does nothing in vain.The law will not attempt to do or compel one...

Let for, properly construed, s. 6(1) must mean that in order that Part II may apply the premises in question...

Principal and agent, he who being sui juris, and competent to do any act for his own benefit on his...

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