JAMUNLINGI

2 definitions found across Law Mind sources

JAMUNLINGIAuthored
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Definition
Jamunlingi does not appear as a defined legal term in the Law Mind corpus or in any verified legal dictionary, treatise, or primary source. The single source entry attributed to Black's Law Dictionary (2nd Ed.) does not contain a definition of this term. The text fragment provided — concerning tithes and, separately, involuntary convulsive muscular movement — appears to be excerpted from adjacent or unrelated entries and does not correspond to a headword "jamunlingi." This entry cannot be completed as a substantive dictionary definition because no reliable definition of "jamunlingi" as a legal term exists in the available source material or in verified legal literature.
Why It Matters in Research
Researchers encountering "jamunlingi" in a corpus search should treat it with caution. The term does not appear in standard Anglo-American legal dictionaries, civil law glossaries, or common law treatises. If it appears in a historical document, it may represent: (1) a transcription or OCR error from a degraded source; (2) a term from a non-English legal tradition that has been transliterated inconsistently; or (3) a hapax legomenon — a word appearing only once in a corpus — that cannot be reliably defined from context alone. Researchers should verify the surrounding document context and consult original physical sources before treating any definition as authoritative.
Historical Dictionary Support
Black's Law Dictionary (2nd Ed.) is the sole source listed, but the text fragment supplied does not define "jamunlingi." The fragment references tithes and, in a separate clause, involuntary convulsive muscular movement in medical jurisprudence — citing Leman v. Insurance Co., 46 La. Ann. 1189 (1894). These are almost certainly portions of neighboring entries (possibly "jactitation" for the tithes reference, and "jactitation" or a related term for the medical jurisprudence passage) that have been misattributed or misaligned in the source extraction. No historical dictionary in the Law Mind corpus independently defines or uses "jamunlingi" as a term of art.
Related Terms
Jactitation (likely source of the misattributed fragment — a false boast of marriage or title); Tithe (ecclesiastical property right referenced in the fragment); Medical Jurisprudence (field referenced in the fragment's secondary passage)
JAMUNLINGImain
Black's Law Dictionary (2nd Ed.) • 1910
that he is entitled to certain tithes to which he has legally no title. In medical jurisprudence. Involuntary convulsive muscular movement; restless agitation or tossing of the body to and fro. Leman v. Insurance Co., 46 La. Ann. 1189, 15 South. 388, 24 L. R. A. 589, 49 Am. St. Rep. 348.

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