KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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MEETING

MKDIANUS HOMO

ute to be carried by all vessels above a cer tain tonnage. MEDICO-LEGAL. Relating to thelaw concerning medical questions. MEDIETAS LINGUiE. In Old practice. Moiety of tongue; half-tongue. Applied to a jury impaneled in a cause consisting the one half of natives, and the other half of foreigners. See DE MEDIETATE LINGUA. A judicial writ to distrain a lord for theacquitting of a mesne lord from a rent, which he had ac knowledged in court not to belong to him. Beg. Jur. 129. MEDITATIO FUGJE. In Scotch law. Contemplation of flight; intention to ab scond. 2 Karnes, Eq. 14, 15. MEDIO ACQUIETANDO. MEDLETUM. In old English law. A mixing together; a medley or m£l6e; an af fray or sudden encounter. An offense sud denly committed in an affray. The English word "medley" is preserved in the term "chance-medley." An intermeddling, without violence, in any matter of business. Spel man. MEDLEY. An affray; a sudden or cas ual fighting; a hand to hand battle; a m$l6e See CHANCE-MEDLEY; CHAUD-MEDLEY. MEOSYFP. A harvest supper or enter tainment given to laborers at harvest-home. Cowell. A coming together of per sons ; an assembly. Particularly, in law, an assembling of a number of persons for the purpose of discussing and acting upon some matter or matters in which they have a com mon interest. —Called meeting. In the law of corpora tions, a meeting not held at a time specially appointed for it by the charter or by-laws, but assembled in pursuance of a "call" or summons proceeding from some officer, committee or group of stockholders, or other persons having authority in that behalf.—Family meeting. See FAMlliY.—General meeting. A meeting of all the stockholders of a corporation, all the creditors of a bankrupt, etc. In re Bonnaffe, 23 N. Y. 177; Mutual F. Ins. Co. v. Farqu har, 86 Md. 668, 39 Atl. 527.—Regular meet ing. In the law of public and private corpora tions, a meeting (of directors, trustees, stock holders, etc.) held at the time and place ap pointed for it by statute, by-law, charter or other positive direction. See State v. Wilkes ville Tp., 20 Ohio St. 293.—Special meeting. In the law of corporations. A meeting called for special purposes; one limited to particular business; a meeting for those purposes of which the parties have had special notice. Mu- MEETING. MEDIUM TEMPUS. In oldEnglish law. Meantime; mesne profits. Cowell. MEDSCEAT. In old English law. A bribe; hush money.

MEDIANUS HOMO. fortune. MEDIATE DESCENT.

A man of middle

See DESCENT.

MEDIATE POWERS. Those incident to primary powers given by a principal to his agent For example, the general authority given to collect, receive, and pay debts due by or to the principal is a primary power. In order to accomplish this, it is frequently required to settle accounts, adjust disputed claims, resist those which are unjust, and answer and defend suits. These subordi nate powers are sometimes called "mediate powers." Story, Ag. § 58. Intervention; interposi tion ; the act of a third person who inter feres between two contending parties with a view to reconcile them or persuade them to adjust or settle their dispute. In inter national law and diplomacy, the word de notes the friendly interference of a state in the controversies of others, for the purpose, by its influence and by adjusting their diffi culties, of keeping the peace in the family of nations. One who interposes be tween parties at variance for the purpose of reconciling them. —Mediators of questions. In English law. Six persons authorized by statute. (27 Edw. III. St. 2, c. 24,) who, upon any question aris ing among merchants relating to unmerchant able wool, or undue packing, etc., might, be fore the mayor and officers of the staple upon their oath certify and settle the same; to whose determination therein the parties con cerned were to submit. Oowell. Pertaining, relating, or be longing to the study and practice of medicine, or the science and art of the investigation, prevention, cure, and alleviation of disease. —Medical evidence. Evidence furnished by medical men, testifying in their professional capacitv as experts, or by standard treatises on medicine or surgery.—Medical jurispru dence. See JUBISPBUDENCE. "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." Smith T. Lane, 24 Hun (N.Y.) 633. —Forensic medicine. Another name for medical jurisprudence. See JUBISPBUDENCE. —Schools of medicine. See OSTEOPATHY ; PSYCHOTHEBAPY. MEDICINE-CHEST. A box containing an assortment of medicines, required by stat BL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)—49 MEDIATE TESTIMONY. Secondary evidence, {q. v.) MEDIATION. MEDIATOR. MEDICAL. MEDICINE.