KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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MUNERA

MULTITUDE. An assemblage of many people. According to Coke it is not a word of very precise meaning; for some authori ties hold that there must be at least ten persons to make a multitude, while others maintain that no definite number is fixed by law. Co. Litt 257. Multitudinem decern faciunt. Co. Litt 257. Ten make a multitude. Multitndo errantinm non parit errori patrocinum. The multitude of those who err furnishes no countenance or excuse for error. 11 Coke, 75a. It is no excuse for er ror that it Is entertained by numbers. Mnltitndo ixnperitorum perdit curiam. The great number of unskillful practitioners ruins a court 2 Inst 219. sheep. Multo ntilins est panes idonea effun dere quam mnltis inutilibus homines gravari. 4 Coke, 20. It is more useful to pour forth a few useful things than to op press men with many useless things. • MULTURE. In Scotch law. The quan tity of grain or meal payable to the proprie tor of a mill, or to the multurer, his tacks man, for manufacturing the corns. Ersk. Inst. 2, 9, 19. MUMMIFICATION. In medical juris prudence. A term applied to the complete drying up of the body. It is the result of burial in a dry, hot soil, or the exposure of the body to a continuously cold and dry at mosphere. 15 Amer. & Eng. Enc Law, 261. Antic diversions in the Christmas holidays, suppressed In Queen Anne's time. MUND. In old English law. Peace; whence mundbryc, a breach of the peace. MULTO. In old records. A wether MUMMING. MUNDBYRD, MUNDEBURDE. A re ceiving into favor and protection. Cowell. MUNDIUM. In old French law. A trib ute paid by a church or monastery to their seignorial avouts and vidames, as the price of protecting them. Steph. Lect 236. MUNERA. In the early ages of the feud al law, this was the name given to the grants of land made by a king or chieftain to his followers, which were held by no certain tenure, but merely at the will of the lord. Afterwards they became life-es tates, and then hereditary, and were called first "benefices," and then "feuds." See Wright Ten. 19.

Malta transeunt cum universitate quae non per se transeunt. Many things pass with the whol£ which do not pass separately. Co. Litt 12a. Mnlti multa, nemo omnia novit. 4 Inst. 348. Many men have known many things; no one has known everything. equity pleading. The fault of improperly joining in one bill distinct and independent matters, and thereby confounding them; as, for ex ample, the uniting in one bill of several mat ters perfectly distinct and unconnected against one defendant, or the demand of sev eral matters of a distinct and independent nature against several defendants, in the same bill. Story, Eq. PI. § 271. And see Harrison v. Perea, 168 U. S. 311, 18 Sup. Ct 129, 42 L. Ed. 478; Wales v. Newbould, 9 Mich. 56; Bovaird v. Seyfang, 200 Pa. 261, 49 Atl. 958; Bolles v. Bolles, 44 N. J. Eq. 385, 14 Atl. 593; Perkins v. Baer, 95 Mo. App. 70, 68 S. W. 939; Thomas v. Mason, 8 Gill (Md.) 1; Barcus v. Gates, 89 Fed. 783, 32 C. C. A. 337; McGlothlin v. Hemery, 44 Mo. 350. MULTIPLE POINDING. In Scotch law. Double distress; a name given to an action, corresponding to proceedings by way of in terpleader, which may be brought by a per son in possession of goods claimed by dif ferent persons pretending a right thereto, calling the claimants and all others to settle their claims, so that the party who sues may be liable only "in once and single payment" Bell. Multiplex et indistinctnm parit con fusionem; et qusestiones, quo simpli ciores, eo lncidiores. Hob. 335. Multi plicity and indistinctness produce confusion; and questions, the more simple they are, the more lucid. Mnltiplicata transgressione crescat poenss inflictio. As transgression Is multi plied, the Infliction of punishment should in crease. 2 Inst. 479. A state of being many. That quality of a pleading which Involves a variety of matters or particulars; undue variety. 2 Saund. 410. A multiply ing or increasing. Story. Eq. PI. § 287. —Multiplicity of actions. A phrase de scriptive of the state of affairs where several different suits or actions are brought upon the same issue. It is obviated in equity by a bill of peace; in courts of law, by a rule of court for the consolidation of different actions. Williams •. Millington, 1 H. Bl. 81; Murphy v. Wilming ton, 6 Houst (Del.) 138, 22 Am. St Rep. 345. MULTIFARIOUSNESS. In MULTIPARTITE. Divided into many or several parts. MULTIPLICITY.