Category: M

Murder. Cowell.

See CAUTIO.

Antic diversions in the Christmas holidays, suppressed in Queen Anne’s time.

In old Scotch law. Mur- ther or murder. Skene.

To borrow; mutuatus, a borrowing. 2 Arch. Pr. 25.

In patent law. Any contrivance used to regulate or augment force or motion; more properly, a complex structure, cousisting of a combination, or peculiar modification, of the mechanical powers.The term “machine,” in

framed by the masters or principal clerks of the chancery. Bract, fol. 4136; Crabb, Com. Law, 547, 548.

A fine paid by the tenants of some manors to the lord for a license to marry a daughter. Cowell. Or, perhaps, for the lord’s omitting the custom of marclicta, (q. v.)

The delivery of a person into the custody of mainpernors, (q. v.) Also the name of a writ (now obsolete) commanding the sheriff to take the security of main- pernors and set

The king’s dignity, power, and royal prerogative, as opposed to his revenue, which is comprised in the minora regalia. 2 Steph. Comm. 475; 1 Bl. Comm. 240. Majore poena affectus quam legibus

He who is guilty, or has been convicted, of some crime or offense. Maleficia non debent remanere irn- pnnita; et impnnitas continuum affectum tribuit delinquenti. 4 Coke, 45. Evil deeds ought not

and proceeding from ignorance, carelessness, want of proper professional skill, disregard of established rules or principles, neglect, or a malicious or criminal intent. See Itodgers v. Kline, 56 Miss. 816, 31 Am.

To enslave ; to bind ; to tie.

In Spanish law. Manner or mode. Las Partidas, pt. 4, tit. 4, 1. 2.

A bastard. Cowell.

The same as mainpernors, (q. v.)

“A marauder is defined in the law to be ‘one who, while employed in the army as a soldier, commits larceny or robbery in the neighborhood of the camp, or while wandering

A marshy or fenny ground. Co. Litt. 5GT.

Arranging, ranking, or disposing in order; particularly, in the case of a group or series of conflicting claims or interests, arranging them in such an order of sequence, or so directing the

Important; more or less necessary; having influence or effect; going to the merits; having to do with matter, as distinguished from form. An allegation is said to be material when it forms