Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

MISAPPROPRIATION

MINOR SEPTEMDECIM, ETC.

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MINTJTE. In measures of time or cir cumference, a minute is the sixtieth part of an hour or degree. In practice. A memorandum of what takes place in court, made by authority of the court. MINUTE-BOOK. A book kept by the clerk or prothonotary of a court for entering memoranda of its proceedings. MINUTE TITHES. Small tithes, such as usually belong to a vicar, as of wool, lambs, pigs, butter, cheese, herbs, seeds, eggs, honey, wax, etc. MINUTES. In Scotch practice. A pleading put into wilting before the lord or dinary, as the ground of his judgment. Bell. In business law. Memoranda or notes of a transaction or proceeding. Thus, the record of the proceedings at a meeting of di rectors or shareholders of a company is called the "minutes." MINUTIO. In the civil law. A lessen ing; diminution or reduction. Dig. 4, 5,1. MIRROR. The Mirror of Justice, or of the Justices, commonly spoken of as the "Mirror," is an ancient treatise on the laws of England, written during the reign of Edward II., and attributed to one Andrew Home. MIS. An inseparable particle used in composition, to mark an ill sense or deprava tion of the meaning; as "miscomputation" or " misaccoinptmg," i. e., false reckoning. Sev eral of the words following are illustrations of the force of this monosyllable. MISA. In old English law. The mise or issue in a writ of right. Spelman. In old records. A compact or agree ment; a form of compromise. Cowell. MISADVENTURE. A mischance or accident; a casualty caused by the act of one person and inflicting injury upon another. Homicide "by misadventure" is where a man, doing a lawful act, without any intention of hurt, unfortunately kills another. 4 Bl. Comm. 182. MISALLEGE. To cite falsely as a proof or argument. MISAPPLICATION. Improper, illegal, wrongful, or corrupt use or application of funds, property, etc. MISAPPROPRIATION. This is not a technical term of law, but it is sometimes

years of age cannot be outlawed, nor placed without the law, because before such age he to not under any law, nor in a decennary. Minor septemdecim annis non admit titur fore exeoutorem. A person under seventeen years is not admitted to be an ex ecutor. 6 Coke, 67. A rule of ecclesiasti cal law. MINOBA BEGALIA. In English law. The lesser prerogatives of the crown, includ ing the rights of the revenue. 1 Bl. Comm. 241. MINORITY. The state or condition of a minor; infancy. The smaller number of votes of a delibera tive assembly; opposed to majority, (which see.) MINT. The place designated by law where bullion is coined into money under au thority of the government. Also a place of privilege in Southwark, near the queen's prison, where persons for merly sheltered themselves from justice un der the pretext that it was an ancient palace of the crown. The privilege is now abol ished. Wharton. MINT-MARK. The masters and work ers of the English mint, in the indentures made with them, agree "to make a privy mark in the money they make, ot gold and silver, so that they may know which moneys were of their own m ak i ng." After every trI al of the pix, having proved their moneys to be lawful, they are entitled to their quietus un der the great seal, and to be discharged from all suits or actions. Wharton. MINT-MASTER. One who manages the coinage. See MASTER OF THE MINT. MINTAGE. The charge or commission taken by the mint as a consideration for coin ing into money the bullion which is brought to it for that purpose; the same as "seignior age." Also that which is coined or stamped as money; the product of the mint. MINUS. Lat. In the civil law. Less; less than. The word had also, in some con nections, the sense of "not at all." For ex ample, a debt remaining wholly unpaid was described as "minus solutum." Minos solvit, qui tardius solvit. He does not pay who pays too late. Dig. 50,16, 12, L

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