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MUNDIUM

n old French law. A tribute paid by a church or monastery to their seignorial avouds and vidamcs, as the price of protecting them. Steph. Leet. 230.

MUSTER

To assemble together troops and their arms, whether for inspection, drill, or service in the field. To take recruits into the service in the army and inscribe their names on the muster-roll

MUTUUM

Eat. In the law of bailments. A loan for consumption ; a loan of chattels, upon an agreement that the borrower may consume them, returning to the lender an equivalent in kind

MACULARE

In old European law. To wound. Spelman. MAD POINT 744 MAGISTRALIA BREVIA

MAINTAINED

In pleading. A technical word indispensable In an indictment for maintenance. 1 Wils. 325.

MAKER

One who makes, frames, or ordains; as a “law-maker.” One who makes or executes; as the maker of a promissory note. See Aud v. Magruder, 10 Cal. 290; Sawyers v. Campbell, 107

MALUM

n. Lat. In Roman law. A mast; the mast of a ship. Dig. 50, 17, 242, pr. Held to be part of the ship. Id. MALUM, adj. Lat. Wrong; evil; wicked reprehensible.

MANCIPIUM

Lat. In Roman law. The momentary condition in which a filius, etc., might be when iu course of emaucipation from the potestas, and before that emancipa- tion was absolutely complete. The condition

MANGONEEEUS

A warlike instrument for casting stones against the walls of a castle. Cowell.

MANUMISSION

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,

MARITAL

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

MARTE SUO DECURRERE

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.

MATERNA MATERNIS

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.

MAUGRE L

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

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