Category: M

Fr. In French maritime law. Master; the master or captain of a vessel. Ord. Mar. liv. 2, tit. 1, art. 1.

In Hindu law. Judicial; belonging to a judge or magistrate.

To feign sickness or any physical disablement or mental lapse or de- rangement, especially for the purpose of escaping the performance of a task, duty, or work.

219, 35 Pac. 677; Saunders v. United States Marble Co., 25 Wash. 475, 65 Pac. 7S2.

Fr. In French law. A person employed by another to do some act for him ; a mandatary. Mandatarins terminos sibi positos transgredi non potest. A mamlutary cannot exceed the limits assigned

To cite any person to appear in court and stand in judgment there. It is different from bannire; for, though both of them are citations, this is by tbe adverse party, and

Lat. With strong hand: A term used in old writs of trespass. Munu forti el cum multitudine gentium, with strong hand and multitude of people. Reg. Orig. 1S3.

A writing; a paper written with the hand; a writing that has not been printed. Parton v. Prang, 18 Fed. Cas. 1275; Leon Loan & Abstract Co. v. Equalization Board, 80 Iowa,

L. Fr. Marshal; a high officer of the royal household. Britt. fol. 16.

These words, “marque” and “reprisal,” are frequently used as synonymous, but, taken In their strict etymological sense, the latter signifies a “taking in return ;” the former, the passing the frontiers (marches)

court of chancery, who holds a separate court ranking next to that of the lord chancellor, and lias the keeping of the rolls and grants which pass the great seal, and the

Of or pertaining to matrimony or the estate of marriage.

In Spanish law. The right to the enjoyment of certain aggregate property, left with the condition thereon imposed that they are to pass in their integrity, perpetually, successively to the eldest son.

See DESCENT.

In Saxon law. A recompense for the murder of a relation

Committing anything to memory. Used to describe the act of one who listens to a public representation of a play or drama, and then, from his recol- lection of its scenes, incidents,

Midnight Cowell.

An amerciament, penalty, or fine, (q. v.)

OF. An old English statute, relating to dower, legitimacy, wardships, procedure, inclosure of common, and usury. It was passed in 1235, (20 Hen. III.,) and was named from Morton, iu Surrey. where

Lat. In Bomjn law. Metal ; a mine. Labor in mines, as a punishment for crime. Dig. 40, 5, 24, 5; Calvin.