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National insurance

National insurance. The (English) National Insur-ance Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 55), introduced by Mr. Lloyd George,...

Modo et forma (in manner and form), a phrase formerly used in pleading. It was the nature of a traverse...

Mixed actions. Suits at Common Law partaking of the nature of real and personal actions, by which some real property...

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Middlesex Quarter Sessions. The are over which the Quarter Sessions for the County of Middlesex has jurisdiction is now much...

Matrimonial causes, suits for the redress of injuries respecting the rights of marriage. They were formerly a branch of the...

Masters extraordinary in Chancery, officers of the High Court of Chancery who performed duties similar to those now performed by...

Master in lunacy, an officer of the Lord Chancellor who executes commissions and conduct inquires connected with persons of unsound...

Lighthouse, a building, from which lights are shown to guide ships at sea. The power of erecting and maintaining them...

Married women's property, At Common Law, a woman, by marrying, transferred the ownership of all her property, real and personal,...

Marriage settlement, an arrangement made before marriage, and in consideration of it (the highest consideration known to the law), whereby...

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