Category: M

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

Such a jury is impaneled to try if a woman condemned to death be with child.

To meander means to follow a winding or flexuous course: and when it is said, in a description of land, “thence with the meander of the river,” It must mean a meandered

A box containing an assortment of medicines, required by stat- BL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)

In medical jurisprudence. A kind of mental unsoundness char- acterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill- grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideaa Webster. See INSANITY.

A servant of the lowest order; more strictly, a domestic servant living under his master’s roof. Boniface v. Scott, 3 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 354.

Belonging to trade.

Sax. A marsh. Spelman.

A house and its appurtenance. Cowell.

An Instrument of measurement; as a coal-meter, a gas-meter, a land- meter.

In old English law. Theft; cheating.

This term means merely coined money; and it is not necessary that it should be marked or rolled on the edges. Leach, 708.

The state or condition of a minor; infancy. The smaller number of votes of a deliberative assembly; opposed to majority, (which see.)

Mixture of races; marriage between persons of different races; as between a white person and a negro.

An adverse event, calamity, or evil fortune, arising by accident, (or without the will or concurrence of him who suffers from it,) and not to be foreseen or guarded against by care