Modus Operandi - Law Dictionary Search Results
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modus operandi [New Latin, manner of operating] : a distinct pattern or method of operation esp. that indicates or suggests the work of a single criminal in more than one crime ...
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signature crime
signature crime : any of two or more crimes that involve the use of a method, plan, or modus operandi so distinctive that it logically follows that the crimes must have been committed by the same person NOTE: Evidence of other criminal acts is usually not admissible against a defendant. Evidence of other crimes to prove that the crime in question is a signature crime committed by the defendant, however, is usually allowed. ...
Modus decimandi
Modus decimandi, a particular manner of tithing arising from immemorial usage, differing from the payment of one-tenth of the annual increase; being sometimes a pecuniary compensation, as two pence per acre for the tithe of land; sometimes a compensation in work and labour, as that the parson should only have the twelfth cock of hay, and not the tenth, in consideration of the owner's making it for him; sometimes in lieu of a large quantity of crude or imperfect tithe a less quantity when arrived to greater maturity, as a couple of fowls in lieu of tithe eggs and the like. Any means, in short, whereby the general law of tithing was altered and a new method of taking tithes was introduced, was called a modus decimandi, or special manner of tithing, 2 Bl. Com. 29. A too large modus was called a 'rank' modus, and the (English) Tithe Act, 1832 (2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 100), required evidence of usage for thirty years....
Rank Modus
Rank Modus, one that is too large. See MODUS DECIMANDI....
Interpretare et concordare leges legibus est optimus interpretandi modus
Interpretare et concordare leges legibus est optimus interpretandi modus [Lat.], to interpret and to reconcile laws with laws is the best mode of interpretation....
Modus de nondecimando non valet
Modus de nondecimando non valet.-(An agreement not to take tithes avails not.)...
Modus et conventio vincunt legem
Modus et conventio vincunt legem[Lat.], custom and agreement overrule law.--(Persons may contract themselves out of their legal obligations.)...
Modus legem dat donationi
Modus legem dat donationi [Lat.], the grantor can impose conditions on the grant....
Modus levandi fines
Modus levandi fines. See FINES....
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