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Definition of Mens Rea Guilty mind : an evil intention, or a knowledge of the wrongfulness of an act. There is a presumption that it is an essential ingredient in every offence, liable to be displaced either by the words of the statute, or by the subject-matter with which it deals. (Wright, […]

Definition of Merchandise Marks Act, 1887 The object of the Act is to prevent the sale and importation of goods falsely marked. The Merchandise Marks Act, 1926, prohibits the exposure for sale, etc., of imported goods to which there is applied any name or trade-mark purporting to be the name […]

Definition of Merohet Marchet (q.v.) Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Merohet in the Dictionaries, Merohet in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, Browse the Legal Thesaurus, Find synonyms […]

Definition of Merits The real matters in question as opposed to technicalities Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Merits in the Dictionaries, Merits in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, […]

Definition of Merry V. Green ((1841), 7 M. & W. 623). Held, that if a party purchases an article of furniture such as a bureau, and there is a secret drawer in it containing money, etc., the owner of which is unknown, he is not entitled to such things, unless the bureau was sold to…

Definition of Merryweather V. Nixan ((1799), 8 T. R. 186). There is no contribution between joint tortfeasors.One, Starkey, brought an action on the case against the present plaintiff and defendant for an injury done by them to his reversionary estate in a mill, in which was included a count […]

Definition of Merton, Statute Of The statute 20 Hen. 3, which declared that children born before the marriage of their parents were illegitimate, in connection with which the Barons declared Nolumus leges Anglice mutaii We will not have the laws of England changed. Browse You might be […]

Definition of Mesne Middle, intervening or intermediate. A mesne lord was one who held of a superior lord. See Process Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Mesne in the Dictionaries, Mesne in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from […]

Definition of Messuage A house, including gardens, courtyard, orchard and outbuildings. Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Messuage in the Dictionaries, Messuage in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia […]