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A word sometimes used synonymously with “kidnapping,” (

In old English law. The district within the jurisdiction of a reeve, apparently so called from his power to exercise therein one of his chief functions, viz., to exact (amanian) all fines.

In old English law. Noblemen who lived on the marshes of Wales or Scotland, and who, according to Cauiden, had their private laws, as if they had been petty kings; which were

In old English law. Marine increases. Lands gained from the sea. Hale, de Jure Mar. pt 1, c. 4.

A system of law, obtaining only in time of actual war and grow MARTIAL LAW 7G4

That which belongs to. or comes from, the mother; as maternal au- thority, maternal relation, maternal estate, maternal line.

The day preceding Good Friday, on which princes gave alms.

(Corruption of maison de Dial.) A house of God; a monastery; religious house or hospital. See 39 Eliz. c. 5.

In old English law. Meantime; mesne profits. Cowell.

To be better inquired into. In old English, law. The name of a writ commanding a further inquiry respecting a matter; as, after an imperfect inquisition in proceedings in outlawry, to have

In the civil law. A measurer of laud; a surveyor. Dig. 11, 6; Id. 50, 6, 6; Cod. 12, 28.

The law of the Mercians. One of the three principal systems of laws which prevailed in England about the beginning of the eleventh century. It was observed In many of the midland

In old records. Timber. Cowell.

tions for legislation, and other matters. Const. U. S. art 2,

In patent law. “Engine” and “method” mean the same thing, and may be the subject of a patent. Method, pivperly speaking, is only placing several things, or performing several operations, in the

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A plowman. Cowell. Minatnr innocentibns qui parcit no- centibus. 4 Coke, 45. He threatens the Innocent who spares the guilty.

In measures of time or circumference, a minute is the sixtieth part of an hour or degree. In practice. A memorandum of what takes place in court, made by authority of the

In practice. An improper continuance; want of proper form in a continuance; the same with “discontinuance.” Cowell.

Delusive; calculated to lead astray or to lead into error. Instructions which are of such a nature as to be misunderstood by the jury, or to give them a wrong impression, are