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305, 47 N. E. 623; Atlanta v. Wright, 119 Ga. 207, 45 S. E. 004; State v. Lewis, 76 Mo. 370; Ex parte Crane, 5 Pet. 190, 8 L. Ed. 92; Marbury

his is a word of large signification, but cannot exceed tbe subject to which it belongs. The incident cannot be extended beyond its principal. Wells v. Bain, 75 Pa. 39, 54, 15

In Saxon law. A horsestealer.

In old English law. Capable of being had or held in hand; capable of manual occupation; capable of being cultivated; capable of being touched; tangible ; corporeal. Ilale, Anal.

A dignity in a woman answerable to that of marquis in a man, con- ferred either by creation or by marriage with a marquis. Wharton.

A public time and appointed place of buying and selling; also purchase and sale. Caldwell v. Alton, 33 111. 419. 75 Am. Dec. 282; Taggart v. Detroit, 71 Mich. 92, 38 N.

L Lat. A messuage.

The murder of a mother; or one who has slain his mother.

Maimed. This is a term of art which cannot be supplied in pleading by any other word, as mutilavit, truneavit, etc. 3 Thorn. Co. Litt. 548; Com. v. Newell, 7 Mass. 247.

In old records. A house or place where inetlieglin, or mead, was made

In old English law. A bribe; hush money.

brano” Is used, In citations to them, in the same way as “page” or “folio,” to distinguish the particular skin referred to.

Relating to or existing in the mind; intellectual, emotional, or psychic, as distinguished from bodily or physical.

All commodities which merchants usually buy and sell, whether at wholesale or retail; wares and commodities such as are ordinarily the objects of trade and commerce. But the term is never understood

In practice. Matter of substance in law, as distinguished from matter of mere form; a substantial ground of defense in law. A defendant is said “to swear to merits” or “to make

This term is now synonymous with “dwelling-house,” but had once a more extended signification. It is frequently used in deeds, in describing the premises. Marmet Co. v. Archibald, 37 W. Va. 778,

A system of measures for length, surface, weight, and capacity, founded on the metre as a unit. It originated in France, has heen established by law there and in some other countries,

In Spanish law. Crops of grain. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 7, c. 5,

In old records. A miner. Minima poena corporalis est major qnalibet pecnniaria. The smallest corporal punishment is greater than any pecuniary one. 2 Inst. 220. Minime mutanda sunt quae certain habuerunt interpretationem.

An inseparable particle used In composition, to mark an ill sense or deprava- tion of tbe meaning; as “miscomputation” or “misaccompting.” i. c., false reckoning. Several of the words following are illustrations