Category: M

L. Fr. In old practice. To put before; to present before a court; to produce iu court.

To alter; to change in incidental or subordinate features. See MODIFICATION.

The state of monks.

A special treatise upon a particular subject of limited range; a treatise or commentary upon a particular branch or division of a general subject

A sum due by law or usage for mooring or fastening of ships to trees or posts at the shore, or to a wharf. Wharf Case, 3 Bland (Md.) 373.

Mors omnia solvit. Death dissolves all things. Jenk. Cent p. 160, case 2. Applied to the case of the death of a party to an action.

MOTE. Sax. A meeting; an assembly. Used in composition, as burymote, folkmote, etc. -Mote-bell. The bell which was used by tlie Saxons to soinmon people to the court. Cowell.

Lat. (1) A woman; (2) a virgin; (3) a wife; (4) a legitimate child. I Inst. 243.

Lat In Roman law. A provincial person; a countryman. This was the designation of one born in the provinces or in a city politically connected with Rome, and who, having become a

A name given to the Issue of an Indian and a negro. Miller v. Dawson, Dud. (S. C.) 174.

Monastic habitation; perhaps the part of a monastery set apart for purposes of hospitality, or as a sanctuary for criminals. Anc. Inst. Eng. BL.LAW DTCT.(2D ED.)