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noun
The arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: law
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noun
A qualification involving the idea of variation or departure from some general rule or form, in the way of either restriction or enlargement, according to the circumstances of the case, as in the will of a donor, an agreement between parties, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
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noun
A fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
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History
Learned borrowing from Latin modus (“measure, manner, mood”). Doublet of mode.
