MUDARIB

In the mudaraba, this is a manager who shares in the profits once the work is begun by the contracted individual. This manager provides the management, business acumen, and the products/services the business entails, and is typically the entrepreneur rather than the financier.

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MUEBLES

In Spanish law. Movables; all sorts of personal property. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 3, c. 1,

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MUGGING

1. Robbing a person from behind and putting an arm around their neck so they are unable to retaliate. 2. Any type of hold up the occurs on the street.

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MUIRBURN

In Scotch law. The offense of setting fire to a muir or moor. 1 Brown, Ch. 78, 110.

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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.

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MULCT

A penalty or punishment imposed on a person guilty of some offense, tort, or misdemeanor, usually a pecuniary flue or condemnation in damages. See Cook v. Marshall County, 119 Iowa, 384, 93 N. W. 372, 104 Am. St. Rep. 283. Mulcta damnum famae non irrogat. Cod. 1, 54. A line does not involve loss of character.

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MULIER

Lat. (1) A woman; (2) a virgin; (3) a wife; (4) a legitimate child. I Inst. 243.

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MULIER PUISNE

L. Fr. When a man has a bastard son. and afterwards marries the mother, and by her has also a legitimate sou, the elder son is bustard eiyni, and the younger son is mulier puisnd.

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MULIERTY

In old English law. The state or condition of a mulier, or lawful issue. Co. Litt. 352b. The opposite of bastardy. Blount Multa conceduntur per obliquum quae non conceduntur de directo. Many things arc allowed indirectly which are not allowed directly. 6 Coke, 47.

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