Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

MEGBOTE

MEDIATE TESTIMONY

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quently required to settle accounts, adjust disputed claims, resist those which are un just, and answer and defend suits. These subordinate powers are sometimes called "mediate powers." Story, Ag. § 58. MEDIATE TESTIMONY. Secondary evidence, (q. v.) MEDIATION. Intervention; interposi tion; the act of a third person who interferes between two contending parties with a view to reconcile them or persuade them to adjust or settle their dispute. In international law and diplomacy, the word denotes the friendly interference of a state in the controversies of others, for the purpose, by its influence and by adjusting their difficulties, of keeping the peace in the family of nations. MEDIATOR. One who interposes be tween parties at variance for the purpose of reconciling them. MEDIATORS OP QUESTIONS. In English law. Six persons authorized by stat ute; (27 Edw. III. St. 2, c 24.) who, upon any question arising among merchants relat ing to unmerchantable wool, or undue pack ing, etc., might, before the mayor and officers of the staple, upon their oath certify and settle the same; to whose determination therein the parties concerned were to sub mit. Cowell. MEDICAL EVIDENCE. Evidence furnished by medical men, testifying in their professional capacity as experts, or by stand ard treatises on medicine or surgery. MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE. The science which applies the principles and prac tice of the different branches of medicine to the elucidation of doubtful questions in a court of justice. Otherwise called "forensic medicine," {q. v.) A sort of mixed science, which may be considered as common ground to the practitioners both of law and physic. 1 Steph. Comm. 8. MEDICINE. "The practice of medicine is a pursuit very generally known and under stood, and so also is that of surgery. The former includes the application and use of medicines and drugs for the purpose of cur ing, mitigating, or alleviating bodily diseases, while the functions of the latter are limited to manual operations usually performed by surgical instruments or appliances." 24 Hun, 633. MEDICINE-CHEST. A box containing an assortment of medicines, required by stat

ute to be carried by all vessels above a cer tain tonnage. MEDICO-LEGAL. Relating to the law concerning medical questions. MEDIETAS LINGUA. In old prac tice. Moiety of tongue; half-tongue. Ap plied to a jury impaneled in a cause consist ing the one half of natives, and the other half of foreigners. See DB MEDIETATB LINGUA. MEDIO ACQUIETANDO. A judicial writ to distrain a lord for the acquitting of a mesne lord from a rent, which he had ac knowledged in court not to belong to him. Reg. Jur. 129. MEDITATIO FUGJE. In Scotch law. Contemplation of flight; intention to abscond. 2 Kames, Eq. 14, 15. M E D I U M TEMFUS. In old English law. Meantime; mesne profits. CowelL MEDLETUM. In old English law. A mixing together; a medley or mtlie; an af fray or sudden encounter. An offense sud denly committed in an affray. The English word "medley" is preserved in the ternr< "chance-medley." An intermeddling, with out violence, in any matter of business. Spelman. MEDLEY. An affray; a sudden or cas ual fighting; a hand to hand battle; a meZ£*. See CHANCE-MEDLEY; CHATJD-MEDLEY. MEDSCEAT. In old English law. A bribe; hush money. MEDSYPP. A harvest supper or enter tainment given to laborers at harvest-home. Cowell. MEETING. A coming together of per sons; an assembly. In the law of corporations, meetings are of two kinds,—ordinary and extraordinary; or, as they are also called, general and special. Ordinary or general meetings are usually held at stated times and for the transaction of business generally. Extraordinary or special meetings are held as occasion may re quire for the transaction of some particular business, which ought to be specified in the notice convening the meeting. One meeting may be both ordinary and extraordinary. Lind. Comp. 572. MEGBOTE. In Saxon law. A recom pense for the murder of a relation.

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