Modus vs Mods - What's the difference?
modus | mods |
(legal, obsolete) The arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance.
(legal) 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.
(legal) A fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi .
* Landor
As nouns the difference between modus and mods
is that modus is (legal|obsolete) the arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance while mods is .modus
English
Noun
(modi)- (Henry de Bracton)
- (Blackstone)
- They, from time immemorial, had paid a modus , or composition.