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Ad medium filum vi' (aqu')
Ad medium filum vi' (aqu') [filum, a thread, Lat.], an imaginary line in the centre of a road or river. The soil of a highway, and the bed of a non-tidal river, are presumed to belong to the owners of the adjacent lands usque ad medium filum vi', or aqu'; and accordingly where in a conveyance of land it is said to be bounded by a highway or a river, half of the road or half of the bed of the river passes to the grantee, unless a contrary intention is shown; see Micklethwait v. Newlay Bridge Co., (1886) 33 CD 133, and City of London Land Tax Commissioners v. Central London Railway, 1913 AC 364. The presumption does not apply to a railway that is a boundary, Thompson v. Hickman, (1907) 1 Ch 550....
Circulating medium
Circulating medium, more comprehensive than the term money, as it is the medium of exchanges, or purchases and sales, whether it be gold or silver coin or any other article....
Filum aqu', vi', medium
Filum aqu', vi', medium. See AD MEDIUM FIL' (AQU')....
Usque ad medium filum aqu', or vi'
Usque ad medium filum aqu', or vi' [Lat.] (even to the middle of the Stream or road). See AD MEDIUM FILUM VI'....
medium term notes
medium term notes unsecured general obligations of Fannie Mae with maturities of one day or more and with principal and interest payable in U.S. dollars. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
Medium goods vehicle
Medium goods vehicle, means any goods carriage other than a light motor vehicle or a heavy goods vehicle. [Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988), s. 2(23)]...
Medium passenger motor vehicle
Medium passenger motor vehicle, means any public service vehicle or private service vehicle, or educational institution bus other than a motor cycle, invalid carriage, light motor vehicle or heavy passenger motor vehicle. [Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988), s. 2(24)]...
Ether
A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity once supposed to pervade all space the interior of solid bodies not excepted and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat hence often called luminiferous ether It is no longer believed that such a medium is required for the transmission of electromagnetic waves the modern use of the term is mostly a figurative term for empty space or for literary effect and not intended to imply the actual existence of a physical medium However modern cosmological theories based on quantum field theory do not rule out the possibility that the inherent energy of the vacuum is greater than zero in which case the concept of an ether pervading the vacuum may have more than metaphoric meaning...
Money
Money, means current coin; metal stamped in pieces as a medium of exchange and measure of value. Hence, anything serving the same purpose as coin, late ME. In mod. use applied indifferently to coin and to such promissory documents representing coin as are currently accepted as a medium of exchange, Shorter Oxford English Dictionary; see also C.I.T. v. Kasturi & Sons Ltd., (1999) 3 SCC 346.Money, the Black's Law Dictionary 5th Edn., defines the word 'money' thus: 'In usual and ordinary acceptation. It means coins and paper currency used as circulating medium of exchange, and does not embrace notes, bonds, evidences of debt, or other personal or real estate, Lane v. Railey, 280 Ky 319, 133 SW 2d 74, 79, 81. See also Currency; Current money; Flat money; Legal tender; Near money; Scrip; Wampum. A medium of exchange authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign Government as a part of its currency, VCC $1-2-1(24).' Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, 5th Edn., defines it as follows: 'Money as cu...
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