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A name given to the Issue of an Indian and a negro. Miller v. Dawson, Dud. (S. C.) 174.

Mutual insurance companies’ group providing liability policies’ reinsurance covering private nuclear energy reactors. Only a pool can possibly write this type of insurance.

A kennel of hounds; one of the mortuaries to which the crown was entitled at a bishop’s or abbot’s decease. 2 Bl. Comm. 426.

Members receive benefits from this type of association. No regular premiums are paid under this benefit plan. with Each loss requires that an assessment be made when it occurs.

Causes permanent genetic change, a mutation, in a cell due to genetic alterations or gene loss or chromosome loss. Cancer development is just one ending in an event-sequence in the early stages of such mutations. Biological, chemical, or physical agent, process, or substance can be a mutagen, causing events other than which occurs during normal cell growth.

Lat In the civil law. Change of name. Cod. 9, 25.

In French law. This term is synonymous with “change,” and is especially applied to designate the change which takes place in the property of a thing in its transmission from one person to another. Mutation, therefore, happens when the owner of the thing sells, exchanges, or gives it. Merl. Rdpert.

In practice. An amendment allowed to a libel, by which there is an alteration of the substance of the libel, as by propounding a new cause of action, or asking one thing instead of another. Dunl. Adm. I’r. 213.

Lat With tlie necessary changes In points of detail.

Speechless; dumb; that cannot or will not speak. In English criminal law, a prisoner is said to stand mute when, being arraigned for treason or felony, he either makes no answer at all, or answers foreign to the purpose or with such matter as is not allowable, and will not answer otherwise, or, upon having pleaded not guilty, refuses to put himself upon the country. 4 Bl. Comm. 324.