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Melius inquirendum, ad, a writ for a second inquiry, where partial dealing was suspected; and particularly of what lands or...

Meeting, an assembly of persons whose consent is required for anything to decide, by a proper majority of votes, whether...

Lodger, a tenant, with the right of exclusive possession, of a part of a house called lodgings, the landlord, by...

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Medical witnesses, may be ordered to attend at an inquest by the coroner under the (English) Coroners Act, 1887 (50...

Medical Officer of Health. Under the (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 106-112...

Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses, the name of a municipal corporation of a borough to which the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882...

Mayor [according to some, anciently written meyr, fr. the British miret, to keep, or fr. the Old English maier, power,...

Malice in law, Acting on a legally extraneous or obviously misconceived ground of action would be case of 'malice in...

Money lender, a few disconnected and isolated transactions would not make a person engaged regularly in Money lending business, Ka...

Minute, sixty seconds, or the sixtieth part of a degree or hour. Also, a memorandum, as of proceedings of a...

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