KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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MULTA NON VETAT LEX

MOVABLE

v. Sayre, 3 N. J. Law, 187.— Movable free hold. A term applied by Lord Coke to real properly which is capable of being increased or diminished by natural causes; as where the owner of seashore acquires or loses land as the waters recede or approach. See Holman T. Hodges, 112 Iowa, 714, 84 N. W. 950, 58 L. K. A. 673, 84 Am. St Rep. 367. MOVABLES. Things movable; movable or personal chattels, which may be annexed to or attendant on the person of the owner, and carried about with him from one part of the world to another. 2 Bl. Comm. 387. Movables consist— First, of inanimate things, as goods, plate, money, jewels, implements of war, garments, and the like, or vegetable productions, as the fruit or other parts of a plant when severed from the body of it, or the whole plant itself when severed from the ground; secondly, of animals, which have in themselves a principle and power of motion. 2 Steph. Comm. 67. In the civil law. Movables (mobilia,) properly denoted inanimate things; animals being distinguished as moventia, things mov ing. Calvin. In Scotch law. "Movables" are opposed to "heritage." So that every species of prop erty, and every right a man can hold, is by that law either heritable or movable. BelL MOVE. 1. To make an application to a court for a rule or order. 2. To propose a resolution, or recommend action in a deliberative body. 3. To pass over; to be transferred; as when the consideration of a contract is said to "move" from one party to the other. 4. To occasion; to contribute to; to tend or lead to. The forewheel of a wagon was said "to move to the death of a man." Sayer, 249. MOVENT. One who moves; one who makes a motion before a court; the applicant for a rule or order. MOVING FOB AN ARGUMENT. Making a motion on a day which is not mo tion day, in virtue of having argued a special case; used in the exchequer after it became obsolete in the queen's bench. Wharton. MUCIANA CAUTIO. See OAUTIO. MUEBIiES. In Spanish law. Movables; all sorts of personal property. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 3, c 1, § 2. MUIRBURN. In Scotch law. The of fense of setting fire to a muir or moor. 1 Brown, Ch. 78, 116. MULATTO. A mulatto is defined to be "a person that is the offspring of a negress by a white man, or of a white woman by a negro." Thurman v. State, 18 Ala. 276.

MULCT. A penalty or punishment Im posed on a person guilty of some offense, tort, or misdemeanor, usually a pecuniary fine or condemnation in damages. See Cook v. Mar shall County, 139 Iowa, 384, 93 N. W. 372, 104 Am. St. Rep. 283. Mnlcta damnum famse non irrogat. Cod. 1, 54. A fine does not involve loss of character. MULIER. Lat (1) A woman; (2) a virgin; (3) a wife; (4) a legitimate child. I Inst 243. MULIER PUISNE. L. Fr. When ft man has a bastard son, and afterwards mar ries the mother, and by her has also a legiti mate son, the elder son is bastard eign6, and the younger son is mulier puisne". MULIERATUS. A legitimate son. Glanvil. MULIERTY. In old English law. The state or condition of a mulier, or lawful is sue. Co. Litt 3526. The opposite of bas tardy. Blount Mnlta concednntnr per obliquum quae non concednntur de directo. Many things are allowed indirectly which are not allowed directly. 6 Coke, 47. MULTA, or MULTURA EPISCOPI. A fine or final satisfaction, anciently given to the king by the bishops, that they might have power to make their wills, and that they might have the probate of other men's wills, and the granting of administration. 2 Inst 291. Mnlta fidem promissa levant. Many promises lessen confidence. Brown v. Castles, II Cush. (Mass.) 350. Mnlta ignoramus qnse nobis non late rent si veternm lectio nobis fnit famili aris. 10 Coke, 73. We are ignorant of many things which would not be hidden from us if the reading of old authors was fa miliar to us. Mnlta in jure commnni contra ratio nem dispntandi, pro commnni ntilitate introdncta sunt. Many things have been introduced into the common law, with a view to the public good, which are inconsistent with sound reason. Co. Litt. 70&; Broom, Max. 158. Mnlta mnlto exercitatione facilins qnam regulis percipies. 4 Inst 50. You will perceive many things much more easily by practice than by rules. Mnlta non vetat lex, qnse tamen tacit* damnavit. The law forbids not many things which yet it has silently condemned.