International Standards Organization (ISO) codec adopted for audio and full-motion video data streams compression and playback. MPEG can reduce a file size to 1/20th or less of its original size with its lossy-compression scheme.
the term that is given to the proposal to end a meeting or a session of court.
the name that is applied to the application made to overturn a judgement or decision proposed by the dissatisfied party.
A term applied to denote the alienation of lands or tenements to any corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal. These purchases having been chiefly made by religious houses, in consequence of which lands became perpetually inherent in one dead hand, this has occasioned the general appellation of “mortmain” to be applied to such alienations. 2 BL Comm. 268; Co. Litt. 26; Perin v. Carey, 24 How. 495, 16 L. Ed. 701.
In ecclesiastical law. A burial-place. A kind of ecclesiastical heriot, being a customary gift of the second best living animal belonging to the deceased, claimed by aud due to the minister in many parishes, ou the death of his parishioners, whether buried in the church-yard or not. 2 Bl. Comm. 425. Ayrton v. Abbott, 14 Q. B. 19. It has been sometimes used in a civil as well as in an ecclesiastical sense, and ap- plied to a payment to the lord of the fee. Paroch. Antiq. 470.
Tables for estimating the probable duration of the life of a party at a given age. Gallagher v. Market St. Ry. Co., G7 Cal. 16, 6 Pac. 871, 51 Am. Rep. 6S0.
A dead pledge; a mortgage, (q. v.;) a pledge where the profits MORTUUS 795 MOVABLE or rents of the thing pledged are not applied to the payment of the debt
Lat Dead. So in sheriffs return, mortuus est, he is dead.
a Latin phrase that means a child who is born dead is not considered legal issue and does not have the usual rights of offspring.
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