Category: M

In old Scotch law. An officer to whom process was directed. Otherwise called “mail- of fie,” (fee,) and classed with the “serjand.” Skene. In Frcnch law. A mayor.

Fr. Against the will; without the consent. Hence the single word “malgre,” and more modern “maugre,” (q. v.)

In criminal law. In its legal sense, this word does not simply mean ill will against a person, but signifies a wrongful act done intentionally, without just cause or excuse. Bromage v.

A warlike engine to batter aud beat down walls.

In Spanish law. Commission ; authority or power of attorney. A contract of good faith, by which one person commits to the gratuitous charge of an- other his affairs, a

In canon law. A handkerchief, which the priest always had in his left hand. Blount

In old records. A long robe or mantle.

Lat In Roman law. The hire or wages of labor; compensation for labor or services performed. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, 5 413.

In old Scotch law. A custom for the lord of a fee to lie the first night with the bride of his tenant. Abolished by Malcolm III. Spelman; 2 Bl. Comm. 83.

A penny anciently paid at the town of Maldon by those who had gutters laid or made out of their houses into the streets. Wharton.

In old Scotch law. A maire; an ofiicer or executor of summons. Otherwise called “praco reyis.” Skeue.

See EVIDENCE.

Maimed. This is a term of art which cannot be supplied in pleading by any other word, as mutilavit, truneavit, etc. 3 Thorn. Co. Litt. 548; Com. v. Newell, 7 Mass. 247.

In old records. A house or place where inetlieglin, or mead, was made

In old English law. A bribe; hush money.

brano” Is used, In citations to them, in the same way as “page” or “folio,” to distinguish the particular skin referred to.

Relating to or existing in the mind; intellectual, emotional, or psychic, as distinguished from bodily or physical.

All commodities which merchants usually buy and sell, whether at wholesale or retail; wares and commodities such as are ordinarily the objects of trade and commerce. But the term is never understood

In practice. Matter of substance in law, as distinguished from matter of mere form; a substantial ground of defense in law. A defendant is said “to swear to merits” or “to make

This term is now synonymous with “dwelling-house,” but had once a more extended signification. It is frequently used in deeds, in describing the premises. Marmet Co. v. Archibald, 37 W. Va. 778,