Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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MINISTER

MILLED MONEY

anything may be dug; such as beds of stone which may be quarried. 14 Mees. & W. 859. Any natural production, formed by the ac tion of chemical affinities, and organized when becoming solid by the powers of crys talization. Webster. MINEBATOB. Inoldrecords. A miner. Minima pcena corporalis est major qualibet peeuniaria. The smallest corpo ral punishment is greater than any pecuniary one. 2 Inst. 220. Minime mutanda snnt qu» certain habuerunt interpretationem. Things which have had a certain interpretation [whose interpretation has been settled, as by common opinion] are not to be altered. Co. Litt. 365; Wing. Max. p. 748, max. 202. MINIMENT. An oldform of muniment, (q. t>.) Blount. Minimum est nihilo proximuxn. Tbe smallest is next to nothing. MINING CLAIM. A parcel of land, containing precious metal in its soil or rock, and appropriated by an individual, according to established rules, by the process of "loca tion." 104 U. S. 649. MINING COMPANIES. This desig nation was formerly applied in England to the associations formed in London in 1825 for working mines in Mexico and South America; but at present it comprises, both in England and America, all mining projects carried on by joint-stock associations or cor* porations. Rapalje & Lawrence. MINING PARTNERSHIP. An asso sociation of several owners of a mine for co operation in working the mine. A mining partnership is governed by many of the rules relating to ordinary partnerships, but alsc by some rules peculiar to itself, one of which is that one person may convey his interest in the mine and business without dissolving the partnership. 102 U. S. 645; 23 Cal. 203; 9 Colo. 46, 10 Pac. Rep. 232. MINISTER. In public law. One of the highest functionaries in the organiza* tion of civil government, standing next to the sovereign or executive head, acting as his immediate auxiliary, and being generally charged with the administration of one ot the great bureaus or departments of the ex ecutive branch of government. Otherwise

MILLED MONEY. This term means merely coined money; and it is not necessary that it should be marked or rolled on the edges. Leach. 708. MIL-B EIS. The name of a piece of money in the coinage of Portugal, and the Azores and Madeira islands. Its value at the custom-house, according as it is coined in the first, second, or third of the places named, is $1.12, or 83} cents, or $1. MINA. In old English law. A measure of corn or grain. Cowell; Spelman. MINAGE. A toll or duty paid for sell ing corn by the mina. Cowell. MISTARE. In old records. To mine or dig mines. Minator, a miner. Cowell. MI NAT OB CARJJC2E. A plowman. Cowell. Minatur innocentibus qui parcit no centibus. 4 Coke, 45. He threatens the in nocent who spares the guilty. MIND. In its legal sense, " mind " means only the ability to will, to direct, to permit, or to assent. In this sense, a corporation has a mind, and exerts its mind each time that it assents to the terms of a contract. 43 N. J. Law, 492. MIND AND MEMOBY. A phrase ap plied to testators, denoting the possession of mental capacity to make a will. In order to make a valid will, the testator must have a sound and disposing mind and memory. In other words, he ought to be capable of making bis will, with an understanding of the nature of the business in which he is en gaged, a recollection of the property he means to dispose of, of the persons who are the objects of his bounty, and the manner in which it is to be distributed between them. 3 Wash. C. C. 585. MINE. A pit or excavation in the earth, from which metallic ores or other mineral substances are taken by digging. Webster. MINER. One who mines; a digger for metals and other minerals. While men of scientific attainments, or of experience in the use of machinery, are to be found in this class, yet the word by which the class is des ignated imports neither learning nor skill. (Colo.) 19 Pac Rep. 604. MINERALS. All fossil bodies or mat ters dag oat of mines or quarries, whence

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