Category: M

An old form of “master.”

This term is used, in the law-books, interchangeably with mis-administration, and both words mean “wrong administration.” Minkler v. State, 14 Neb. 1S3, 15 N. W. 331.

Evincing malice; done with malice and an evil design ; willful.

A human being. A person of the male sex. A male of the human species above the age of puberty. In feudal law. A vassal; a tenant or feudatory. The Anglo-Saxon relation

Lat In the civil law. The employing party in a contract of mandate. One who gives a tiling in charge to another; one who requires, requests, or employs another to do some

Formal words introduced at the conclusion of a traverse. Their object is to put the party whose pleading is traversed not only to the proof that the matter of fact denied is,

To pick pockets.

In old English law. To occupy ; to use or cultivate; to have in manual occupation; to bestow manual labor upon. Cowell.

Lat The sea.

In practice and conveyancing. One who makes his mark; a person who cannot write, and only makes his mark In executing instruments. Arch. N. Pr. 13; 2 Chit. 92.

In the civil law. A mass; an unwrought substance, such as gold or silver, before it is wrought into cups or other articles. Dig. 47, 2, 52, 14; Fleta, lib. 2, c.

society, whereof a list was made. Hence those who are admitted to a college or uni- versity are said to be “matriculated.” Also a kind of almshouse, which had revenues appropriated to

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