Category: M

In French and Scotch law. The employing party in the contract of man- datum, or mandate. Story, Bailm.

A day’s work of a man. Cowell. A summoning to court. Spelman.

Engines to catch trespassers, now unlawful unless set in a dwelling- house for defense between sunset and sunrise. 24 & 25 Vict c. 100,

Lat. A hand. In the civil law, this word signified power, control, authority, the right of physical coercion, and was often used as synonymous with “potcstas.” In old English law, it signified

In old English law. A marshal; a master of the stables; an officer of the exchequer; a military officer of high rank, having powers and duties similar to those of a constable.

An English statute enacted in 1207 (52 nen. III.) at Marlbridge, (now called “Marlbor- ough,”) where parliament was then sitting. It related to land tenures, and to procedure, and to unlawful and

In old English law. The practice of selling the goods of dead seamen at the mast. Held void. 7 Mod. 141.

To enter as a student in a university. Matrimonia debent esse libera. Marriages ought to be free. A maxim of the civil law. 2 Kent, Comm. 102.

Fr. A work of the hand; a thing produced by manual labor. Yearb. M. 4 Edw. III. 38.

Men of a middle and base condition. Blount. MEDIANUS HOMO 769 MEETING

A coming together of persons ; an assembly. Particularly, in law, an assembling of a number of persons for the purpose of discussing and acting upon some matter or matters in which

Lat To be

A collection or institute of the earliest laws of ancient India. The work Is of very remote antiquity.

Fit for sale: vendible in market; of a quality such as will bring the ordinary market price. Riggs v. Armstrong, 23 W. Va. 773; Pacific Coast Elevator Co. v. Bravinder, 14 Wash.

A lake; also a marsh or fen-land.

Lat. A goal, bound, or turning-point. In old English law, the term was used to denote a bouud or boundary line of land; a landmark; a material object, as a tree or

In English law. One of the titles of an archbishop. Derived from the circumstance that archbishops were consecrated at first in the metropolis of a province. 4 Inst. 94. In England, the

A payment or charge, at a fixed rate per mile, allowed as a compensation for traveling expenses to members of legislative bodies, witnesses, sheriffs, and bailiffs. Bichardson v. State, 66 Ohio St.

The process or business of extracting from the earth the precious or valu- able metals, either in their native state or in their ores. In re Rollins Gold Min. Co. (D. C.)

A mischance or accident; a casualty caused by the act of one person and inflicting injury upon another. Homicide “by misadventure” is where a man, doing a lawful act. without any intention