MONOGRAPH

A special treatise upon a particular subject of limited range; a treatise or commentary upon a particular branch or division of a general subject. MONOMACHY, A duel; a single com• bat. It was anciently allowed by law for the trial or proof of crimes. It was even permitted in pecuniary causes, but it is now forbidden both by the civil law and canon law~. MONOMANIA, In medical jurisprudence. Derangement of a single faculty of the mind, or with regard to a particular subject, the other faculties being in regular exercise. See INSANITY•. Monopoli& die it112", cum unus solu• aliquod genus merc a tarre universum emit, pretium ad suum llbitum statuens. 11 Coke, 86. It Is said to be a monopoly when one person alone buys up the whole of one kind of commodity, flxinl: a price at his qwn pleasure. [s. 796]