Category: M

A mother city; one from which a colony was sent out. The capital of a province. Calvin.

A measure of length or distance, containing 8 furlongs, or 1,760 yards, or 5,280 feet. This is the measure of an ordinary or statute mile; but the nautical or geographical mile contains

An old form of muniment, (q. v.) Blount. Minimum est niliilo proximum. The smallest is next to nothing.

In old English law. The mlse or issue in a writ of right. Spelman. In old records. A compact or agreement; a form of compromise. Cowell.

In criminal law. A general name for criminal offenses of every sort, punishable by indictment or special proceedings, which do not in law amount to the grade of felony. A misdemeanor is

Beading a deed or other Instrument to an illiterate or blind man (who is a party to it) in a false or deceitful manner, so that he conceives a wrong idea of

In French law. The joint ownership of two neighbors in a wall, ditch, or hedge which separates their estates.

A chairman or president of an assembly. A person appointed to pre- side at a popular meeting. The presiding officer of town-meetings in New England is so called. See Wheeler v. Carter,

Lat He gently laid hands upon. Formal words in the old Latin pleas in actions of trespass and assault where a defendant justified faying hands upon the plaintiff, as where it was

The marriage of one wife only, or the state of such as are restrained to a single wife. Webster. A marriage contracted between one man and one woman, in exclusion of all

In Hindu law. A written authority constituting an agent; a power of attorney.

Mors omnia solvit. Death dissolves all things. Jenk. Cent p. 160, case 2. Applied to the case of the death of a party to an action.

MOTE. Sax. A meeting; an assembly. Used in composition, as burymote, folkmote, etc. -Mote-bell. The bell which was used by tlie Saxons to soinmon people to the court. Cowell.

Multa transeunt cum universitate quae non per se transeunt. Many things pass with the whole which do not pass separately. Co. Litt. 12a. Multi multa, nemo omnia novit. 4 Inst. 348. Many

The instruments of writing and written evidences which the owner of lands, possessions, or inheritances has, by which he is enabled to defend the title of his estate. Termes de la Ley;

Lat With tlie necessary changes In points of detail.

also stands as an abbreviation for several words of which it is the initial letter; as “Mary,” (the English queen of that name,) “Michaelmas,” “master,” “middle.”

Certain regulations prescribed for the government of the Madras presidency. Mozley & Whitley.

In old English law. A great or general reap-day. Cowell; Blount.

This word, as applied to a letter, means that the letter was properly prepared for transmission by the servants of the postal department, and that it was put in the custody of