Middle Man - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: middle manMiddle-man
Middle-man, an intermediary between wholesale merchants and retail dealers; a distributor from producer to consumer....
Middle aged
Being about the middle of the ordinary age of man early in the century it was considered between 30 and 50 years old but by the end of the 19th centruy it was considered as 40 to 60...
Man, Isle of
Man, Isle of (Mona), in the Irish Sea, off the coast of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, granted by Henry the Fourth and James the First to members of the Stanley family, whose successor in the female line, the Duke of Athol, sold it to the Crown for 70,000l., being about ten years' purchase of the annual revenue, by the Isle of Man Purchase Act, 1765 (5 Geo. 3, c. 26).The Isle of Man is not subject to British Acts of Parliament unless expressly named therein (as in the Customs Acts, for the purposes of which, by s. 277 of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, it is deemed part of the United Kingdom), being legislated for by its own Parliament, called the House of Keys, but an Isle of Man (Customs) Act, is passed every year by the Imperial Parliament....
Straw, Man of
Straw, Man of, a man of no substance. A transfer of shares, in a company, to such a man is good, subject to its regulations, so as to relieve the transferor from liability to pay calls upon the shares, if the transferee be sui juris, and there be no resulting trust for the transferor [see De Pass's case, (1859) 4 De G. & J. 544], and unless the Stannaries Act, 1869, s. 35, applies; and see CONTRIBUTORY. Likewise the assignee o a lease may escape liability on the covenants after assignment by 'assigning over' to a man of straw....
lower middle class
occupying the lower part of the middle socioeconomic range in a society...
Middle age
Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages mediaeligval...
middle level
intermediate in rank or position as middle level management...
Middling
Of middle rank state size or quality about equally distant from the extremes medium moderate mediocre ordinary...
Middlings
A combination of the coarser parts of ground wheat the finest bran separated from the fine flour and coarse bran in bolting formerly regarded as valuable only for feed but now after separation of the bran used for making the best quality of flour Middlings contain a large proportion of gluten...
dead man's statute
dead man's statute : a law barring the testimony of a person with an interest in an estate regarding any conversation with or any event taking place in the presence of the decedent called also dead man act dead man's act ...
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