This represents the treasury stocks market-listed for a 12-month period. Prior year figures and current market values are the basis to the amounts.
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MUCIANA CAUTIO
See CAUTIO.
MUCKRAKER
An entity intentionally seeking and publishing a public entity’s misdeeds, criminal acts, and corruption for profit or gain. Sometimes linked to powerful businessmen, muckraker is typically given specifically to journalists.
MUDARABA
Arabic-styled finance, pre-Islamic. One individual provides startup capital as the financier. Another individual will do the actual work, as the entrepreneur . Here, a single-tiered mudaraba exists. If there is […]
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 […]
MUEBLES
In Spanish law. Movables; all sorts of personal property . White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 3, c. 1,
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.
MUIRBURN
In Scotch law. The offense of setting fire to a muir or moor. 1 Brown, Ch. 78, 110.
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, […]
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 […]
MULIER
Lat. (1) A woman; (2) a virgin; (3) a wife; (4) a legitimate child . I Inst. 243.
MULIER ATUS
A legitimate son. Glanvil.
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 […]
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 […]
MULIPLEXER
To allow two or more signals to pass over one communication circuit, like a phone line, this specific type of electronic device combines the signals. At the receiving end, the […]
MULLEN BURST TEST
Measures the pressure needed to perforate a single paper sheet or paperboard to indicate its load carrying capacity under specific conditions. It has only limited reliability for double-walled, or two-ply […]
MULTA NON VETAT LEX
v. Sayre, 3 N. J. Law, 187.
MULTA, or MULTURA EPISCOPI
A fine or final satisfaction , anciently given to the king by the bishops, that they might have power to make’ their wills, and that they might have the probate […]
MULTI CHANNEL MARKETING
Using several varied marketing schemes to obtain consumer business. Web sites, catalogs, telephone calls, mail, and television advertisements are typical, modern schemes. This marketing approach requires good management systems in […]
MULTI FIBER AGREEMENT (MFA)
Two countries may negotiate quota restrictions on textile and apparel imports from each other under this specific international trade agreement. Under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, MFA restrictions are prohibited […]
MULTI PERIL CROP INSURANCE
Weather conditions, insects, flood, or other named perils that cause crop loss are covered by this type of insurance.
MULTI PERIL POLICIES
A contract that covers more than one danger as this type of policies.
MULTI-BRAND STRATEGY
Under different and unrelated brands two or more similar and competing products are marketed by the same firm. Multi- brand strategy has some advantages as a means of (1) holding […]
MULTI-CURRENCY NOTE FACILITY
A euronote facility that is allowed to use more than one currency.
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY
Different disciplines with multiple specialists cover this specific type of treatment.