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Mill
One-tenth of one cent: $0.001. A mill rate is used by many localities to compute property taxes. For example, some states levy a one-time nonrecurring tax of two mills per dollar (0.2%) on the fair market value of all notes, bonds, and other obligations for payment of money that are secured by mortgage, deed of trust, or other lien on real property in lieu of all other taxes on such property.
MILL, estates. Mills are so very different and various, that it is not easy
to give a definition of the term. They are used for the purpose of grinding
and pulverising grain and other matters, to extract the juices of
vegetables, to make various articles of manufacture. They take their names
from the uses to which they are employed, hence we have paper-mills,
fulling-mills, iron-mills, oil-mills, saw-mills, &c. In another respect
their kinds are various; they are either fixed to the freehold or not. Those
which are a part of the freehold, are either watermills, wind-mills, steam-
mills, &c.; those which are not so fixed, are hand-mills, and are merely
personal property. Those which are fixed, and make a part of the freehold,
are buildings with machinery calculated to obtain the object proposed in
their erection.
2. It has been held that the grant of a mill; and its appurtenances,
even without the land, carries the whole right of water enjoyed by the
grantor, as necessary to its use, and as a necessary incident. Cro. Jac.
121, And a devise of a mill carries the land used with it, and the right to
use the water. 1 Serg. & Rawle, 169; and see 5 Serg. & Rawle, 107; 2 Caine's
Ca. 87; 10 Serg. & Rawle, 63; 1 Penna. R. 402; 3 N. H. Rep. 190; 6 Greenl.
R. 436; Id. 154; 7 Mass. Rep. 6; 5 Shepl. 281.
3. A mill means not merely the building, in which the business is
carried on, but includes the site, the dam, and other things annexed to the
freehold, necessary for its beneficial enjoyment. 3 Mass R. 280. See Vide 6
Greenl. R. 436.
4. Whether manufacturing machinery will pass under the grant of a mill
must depend mainly on the circumstances of each case. 5 Eng. C. L. R. 168;
S. C. 1 Brod. & Bing. 506. In England the law appears not to be settled. 1
Bell's Com. 754, note 4, 5th ed. In this note are given the opinions of Sir
Samuel Romily and Mr. Leech, on a question whether a mortgage of a piece of
land on which a mill was erected, would operate as a mortgage of the
machinery. Sir Samuel was clearly of opinion that such a mortgage would bind
the machinery, and Mr. Leech was of a directly opposite opinion.
5. The American law on this subject, appears not to be entirely fixed.
1 Hill. Ab. 16; 1 Bailey's R. 540; 3 Kent, Com. 440; see Amos & Fer., on
Fixt., 188, et seq.; 1 Atk. 165; 1 Ves. 348; Sugd. Vend. 30; 6 John. 5; 10
Serg. & Rawle, 63; 2 Watts & Serg. 116; 6 Greenl. 157; 20 Wend. 636; 1 H.
Bl. 259, note; 17 S. & R. 415; 10 Amer. Jur. 58; 1 Misso. R. 620; 3 Mason,
464; 2 Watts & S. 390. Vide 15 Vin. Ab. 398; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t. 6
Cowen, 677.
MILL, money. An imaginary money, of which ten are equal to one cent, one hundred equal to a dime, and one thousand equal to a dollar. There is no coin of this denomination. Vide Coin; Money.