Morice - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: moriceMoric
Pertaining to or derived from fustic see Morin as moric acid...
Morate
A salt of moric acid...
Morice
See Morisco...
Morin
A yellow crystalline substance C15H10O7 of acid properties extracted from fustic Chlorophora tinctoria syn Maclura tinctoria formerly called Morus tinctoria called also moric acid and natural yellow 8 It is used as a dye for wool giving a color from lemon yellow through olive to olive brown depending on the metal with which it is mordanted...
Moroxylic
Of pertaining to or derived from the mulberry moric...
Charities, or Public Trusts
Charities, or Public Trusts. One of the earliest fruits of the Emperor Constantine's zeal, or pretended zeal, for Christianity, was a permission to his subjects to bequeath their property to the Church. This permission was soon abused to so great a degree as to induce the Emperor Valentinian to enact to Mortmain Act by which it was restrained. But this restraint was gradually relaxed; and in the time of Justinian it became a fixed maxim of civil law that legacies to pious uses (which included all legacies destined to works of charity, whether they related to spiritual or temporal concerns) were entitled to peculiar favour, and to be deemed privileged testaments.Lord Thurlow was clearly of opinion that the doctrine of charities grew up from the civil law; and Lord Eldon, in assenting to that opinion, has judiciously remarked, that at an early period that ordinary had the power to apply a portion of every man's personal estate to charity; and when afterwards the statute compelled a distr...
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