Category: M

Iu old English law. A mansion or house. Spelman.

The act of liberating a slave from bondage and giving him freedom. In a wider sense, releasing or delivering one person from the power or control of another. See Fenwick v. Chapman,

In French mercantile law. Damaged goods.

Relating to, or connected with, the status of marriage; pertaining to a husband; incident to a husband.

Lat. To run by its own force. A term applied in the civil law to a suit when it ran Its course to the end without any impediment Calvin.

Lat. A maxim of the French law, signifying that property of a decedent acquired by him through his mother descends to the relations on the mother’s side.

Fr. In spite of; against the will of. Litt. S 672. MAUNDY THURSDAY 767 MEANDER

Norman-French for a house. Litt.

In Scotch law. Contemplation of flight; intention to abscond. 2 Kames, Eq. 14, 15.

In Scotch law. Improvements of an estate, other than mere re- pairs; betterments. 1 Bell, Comm. 73. Occasionally used in English and American law in the sense of valuable and lasting improvements

Lat. In the civil and old English law. A month. Mentis vetitus, the prohibited month; fence-month, (q. v.)

A hirer; one that hires.

In old English law. A stone for bounding or dividing lands. Yearb. P. 18 Hen. VI. 5.

In English law. The method of communicating between the sovereign and the house of parliament. A written message under the royal sign-manual is brought by a member of the house, being a

Sax. Speech; discourse. ilathlian, to speak; to harangue. Auc. lust. Eng.

An agent between two parties, an intermediary who performs the office of a broker or factor between seller and buyer, producer and consumer, land- owner and tenant, etc. Southack v. Lane, 32

In old records. To mine or dig mines. Minator, a miner. Cowell.

Lat. In the civil law. Less; less than. The word had also, in some con- nections, the sense of “not at all.” For example. a debt remaining wholly unpaid was described as

Any unlawful conduct on the part of a person concerned in the ad- ministration of justice which is prejudicial to the rights of parties or to the right deter- mination of the

To deposit in a place not afterwards recollected; to lose anything by for- getfulness of the place where it was laid. Shehane v. State, 13 Tex. App. 535.