Mint Sauce - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: mint sauceSauce
A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish especially a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings as mint sauce sweet sauce etc...
Mint sauce
A sauce of vinegar and sugar flavored with spearmint leaves...
Master of the Mint
Master of the Mint, an officer who receives bullion for coinage, and pays for it and superintends everything belonging to the Mint. He is usually called the Warden of the Mint. It is provided by the (English) Coinage Act, 1870 (33 Vict. c. 10), s. 14, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the time being shall be the Master of the Mint....
Mint
Mint [fr. moneta, Lat.; mynet, Sax., money, from mynetian, to coin], the place where money is coined. The Mint of Great Britain is situated near the Tower of London. By the (English) Coinage Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 10) (repealing various Acts), the laws relating to the coinage and Mint are consolidated and amended. See COIN.Also, a place of privilege in Southwark, near the king's prison, where persons formerly sheltered themselves from justice under the pretext that it was an ancient palace of the Crown. The privilege has long been abolished....
Mint-mark
Mint-mark. The masters and workers of the Mint, in the indentures made with them, agree 'to make, of gold and silver, so that they may know which moneys were of their own making'; after every trial of the pyx, having proved their moneys to be lawful, they are entitled to their quietus under the Great Seal, and to be thereupon discharged from all suits or actions; they then change the privy mark, so that the moneys from which they are not yet discharged may be distinguished from those for which they are; they use the new mark until another trial of the pyx. See (English) Coinage Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 10), s. 12. See PYX...
Hollandaise sauce
A sauce consisting essentially of a seasoned emulsion of butter and yolk of eggs with a little lemon juice or vinegar...
Brook mint
See Water mint...
Mint master
The master or superintendent of a mint Also used figuratively...
mint state
A numerical grade indicating the degree of perfection of the condition of a coin which is classified as uncirculated ranging from 70 for a coin in perfect condition to 60 for a coin which is uncirculated but may have a weak strike or numerous small scratches from being handled in mint bags usually used as the abbreviation MS as an MS 67 Morgan Dollar...
Mint-master
Mint-master, one who manages the coinage. See MASTEROF THEMINT....
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