Category: M

Lat. By reason of death; iu contemplation of death. Thus used in the phrase “Donatio mortis causa,” (q. v.) Mortis momentum est ultimum vita momentum. The last moment of life is the

A mulatto is defined to be “a person that is the offspring of a negress by a white man, or of a white woman by a negro.” Thurman v. State, 18 Ala.

A receiving into favor and protection. Cowell.

In old English law. A moss or marsh ground, or a place where sedges grow; a place overrun with moss. Cowell.

Lat. In civil and old English law. Dumb and deaf. MUTUUM 801 MYSTIC TESTAMENT

In old English law. A barn or granary open at the top; a rick or stack of corn. Spelman.

In old pleading. Great beasts, as horses, oxen, etc. Cro. Jae. 5S0.

See MAYHEM; MAIM.

To maintain an action or suit is to commence or institute it; the term imports the existence of a cause of action. Boutiller v. The Milwaukee, 8 Minn. 105, (Gil. 80, 81.)

In old practice. Greater right or more right A plea in the old real actions. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 476. Alajus jus merum, more mere right Bract, fol. 31.

In the civil law. Waste; damage; tort; injury. Dig. 5, 18, 1.

In reference to the treatment of his patient by a surgeon, this term signifies improper or unskillful treatment ; it may result either from ignorance, neglect, or willfulness; but the word does

Lat In Roman law. Certain classes of things which could not be aliened or transferred except by means of a certain formal ceremony of conveyance called “maneipatio,” (q. v.) These included laud,

In old English law. To buy in a market

In criminal law. The unlawful killing of another without malice, either express or implied; which may be either voluntarily, upon a sudden heat, or involuntarily, but in the commission ofsomo unlawful act

v. The primary meaning of this word is “making with the hand,” but this definition is too narrow for its present use. Its meaning has expanded as workmanship and art have advanced,

In Scotch law. A boundary line or border. Bell. The word is also used in composition; as march-dike, march-stone.

The portion which is given with a daughter in marriage. Also the power which the lord or guardian in chivalry had of disposing of his infaut ward in matrimony.

A place of public traffic or sale.

The substance or matter of which anything is made; matter furnished for the erection of a house, ship, or other structure; matter used or intended to be used in the construction of