Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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according as one or another of the following varieties of months is intended: Astronomical, containing one-twelfth of the time occupied by the sun in passing through the entire zodiac. Calendar, civil, or solar, which is one of the months in the Gregorian calendar,—Jan uary, February, March, etc.,—which are of unequal length. Lunar, being the period of one revolution of the moon, or twenty-eight days. MONUMENT. Anything by which the memory of a person or an event is preserved or perpetuated. A tomb where a dead body has been deposited. Monumenta quee nos recorda vocamus sunt veritatis et vetustatis vestigia. Co. Litt. 118. Monuments, which we call "rec ords," are the vestiges of truth and antiq uity. MONUMENTS. Permanent landmarks established for the purpose of indicating boundaries. MONYA. In Norman law. Moneyage. A tax or tribute of one shilling on every hearth, payable to the duke every three years, in consideration that he should not alter the coin. Hale, Com. Law, 148, and note. MOOKTAR. In Hindu law. An agent or attorney. MOOKTARNAMA. In Hindu law. A written authority constituting an agent; a power of attorney. MOOR. An officer in the Isle of Man, who summons the courts for the several sheadings. The office is similar to the En glish bailiff of a hundred. MOORAGE. A sum due by law or usage for mooring or fastening of ships to trees or posts at the shore, or to a wharf. 3 Bland, 373. MOORING. In maritime law. Anchor ing or making fast to the shore or dock; the securing or confining a vessel in a particular station, as by cables and anchors or by a line or chain run to the wharf. A vessel is "moored in safety," within the meaning of a policy of marine insurance, when she is thus moored to a wharf or dock, free from any immediate danger from any of the perils insured against. See 1 Phil. Ins. 968. MOOT, adj. A subject for argument; unsettled; undecided. As a moot case, a moot point.

particular business or trade, manufacture a particular article, or control the sale of the whole supply of a particular commodity. Defined in English law to be "a license or privilege allowed by the king for the sole buying and selling, making, working, or us ing, of anything whatsoever; whereby the subject in general is restrained from that lib erty of manufacturing or trading which he had before." 4 Bl. Comm. 159; 4 Steph. Gomm. 291. MONSTER. A prodigious birth; a hu man birth or offspring not having the shape of mankind; which cannot be heir to any land, albeit it be brought forth in marriage. Bract, fol. 5; Co. Litt. 7, 8; 2 Bl. Comm. 246. MONSTRANS DE DROIT. L.Fr. In English law. A showing or manifesta tion of right; one of the common law meth ods of obtaining possession or restitution from the crown, of either real or personal property. It is the proper proceeding when the right of the party, as well as the right of the crown, appears upon record, and consists in putting in a claim of right grounded on facts already acknowledged and established, and praying the judgment of the court whether upon these facts the king or the sub ject has the right. 3 Bl. Comm. 256; 4 Coke, 546. MONSTRANS DE FAITS. L.Fr. In old English practice. A showing of deeds; a species of profert. Cowell. MONSTRAVERUNT, WRIT OF. In English law. A writ which lies for the tenants of ancient demesne who hold by free charter, and not for those tenants who hold by copy of court roll, or by the rod, accord ing to the custom of the manor. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 14. MONSTRUM. A box in which relics are kept; also a muster of soldiers. Cowell. MONTES. In Spanish law. Forests or woods. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 1, c. 6, §1 MONTES PIETATIS. Public pawn broking establishments; institutions estab lished by government, in some European countries, for lending small sums of money on pledges of personal property. In France they are called "monts depUU." MONTH. One of the divisions of a year. The space of time denoted by this term varies

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