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Mis

A prefix used adjectively and adverbially in the sense of amiss wrong ill wrongly unsuitably as misdeed mislead mischief miscreant

jiggery pokery

A verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of a person in some way

Mi

A syllable applied to the third tone of the scale of C i e to E in European solmization but to the third tone of any scale in the American system

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Parties

Court, 1883, Ord. XVI., make very full provision as to the joinder of parties and the consequences of misjoinder and non-joinder. All persons may be joined as plaintiffs in whom the right to any relief claimed is

joinder

a suit ;also : a joining of claims by one or more plaintiffs in a suit see also misjoinder compare counterclaim, cross-claim, impleader, interpleader, intervention, sever collusive joinder : an addition of a party to a suit

multiplicity

information [ does not require dismissal of the indictment "W. R. LaFave and J. H. Israel"] compare duplicity, misjoinder NOTE: Multiplicity raises the risk of violating the double jeopardy protection against receiving multiple sentences for a single

multifarious

of the decree; and b) the order that appellant pay "Spradley v. Hutchison, 787 S.W.2d 214 (1990)"] compare misjoinder mul·ti·far·i·ous·ness n

Illegality

Subramania Aiyar's case), where they speak of a contravention of s. 234 of the Code, resulting in a misjoinder of charges, as an illegality, Willie (William) Slaney v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1956 SC 116 (134):

duplicity

improper charging of more than one offense in one count in a charging instrument (as an indictment) compare misjoinder, multiplicity

party

without affecting or impairing those rights, no complete disposition of the action can be made without the party's joinder, and whose nonjoinder will result in the dismissal of an action compare necessary party in this entry NOTE:

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