Category: M

A house, mansion, or farm. Cowell.

In old English law. A thief or pirate. Wals. 338.

To malign or slander; also to maim.

Chains for the hands; shackles.

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.

The executive head of a municipal corporation; the governor or chief magistrate of a city. Waldo v. Wallace, 12 Ind. 577; People v. New York, 25 Wend. (N. Y.) 36; Crovatt v.

A man of middle fortune.

tual F. Ins. Co. y. Farquhar, 86 Md. 668, 39 AU. 527; Warren y. Mower, 11 Vt. 385.

A document presented to a legislative body, or to the executive, by one or more individuals, containing a petition or a representation of facts. In English law. That which contains the particulars

A fenny place. Cowell.

In feudal law. A fine or composition paid by inferior tenants to the lord for liberty to dispose of their daughters in marriage. Cowell. The same as mar- chcta (q. v.)

A church calendar or rubric. Cowell.

An error In computation of time.