Category: M

In French law. The government building of each commune. It contains the record ollice of all civil acts and the list of voters; and it is there that political and municipal elections

Lat Bad ; evil; wrongful.

Hotchkiss v. Porter, 30 Conn. 414.

In French law. This word is applied to all grave and punishable faults committed in the exercise qf a charge or commission, (office,) such as corruption, exaction, concussion, larceny. Merl. Repert.

305, 47 N. E. 623; Atlanta v. Wright, 119 Ga. 207, 45 S. E. 004; State v. Lewis, 76 Mo. 370; Ex parte Crane, 5 Pet. 190, 8 L. Ed. 92; Marbury

his is a word of large signification, but cannot exceed tbe subject to which it belongs. The incident cannot be extended beyond its principal. Wells v. Bain, 75 Pa. 39, 54, 15

In Saxon law. A horsestealer.

In old English law. Capable of being had or held in hand; capable of manual occupation; capable of being cultivated; capable of being touched; tangible ; corporeal. Ilale, Anal.

A dignity in a woman answerable to that of marquis in a man, con- ferred either by creation or by marriage with a marquis. Wharton.

A public time and appointed place of buying and selling; also purchase and sale. Caldwell v. Alton, 33 111. 419. 75 Am. Dec. 282; Taggart v. Detroit, 71 Mich. 92, 38 N.

L Lat. A messuage.

The murder of a mother; or one who has slain his mother.

Fr. A hand; handwriting. Britt C. 28.

In old English law. Midnight. Ad mediam noctem, at midnight Fleta, lib. 5, c. 5,

A harvest supper or entertainment given to laborers at harvest-home. Cowell.

A slip or small piece of land.

The act of lying; a falsehood.

A man who traffics or carries on trade with foreign countries, or who exports and imports goods and sells them by wholesale. Webster. Merchants of this de- scription are commonly known by

See Ex MERO MOTU; MERE MOTION.

A mongrel or person of mixed blood; sometimes used as equivalent to “octoroon,” that is, the child of a white person and a quadroon, sometimes as denoting a person one of whose