Category: M

Royal dignity. A term used of kings and emperors as a title of honor.

In Hindu law. A treasury or store-house.

In old European law. A court of the higher kind in which the more important business of the county was dispatched by the count or earl. Spelman. A public national assembly.

Men of a mean condition, or of the lowest degree.

In practice. A Judicial command or precept proceeding from a court or judicial officer, directing the proper officer to enforce a judgment, sentence, or decree. Seaman v. Clarke, 60 App. Div. 416,

served for his own use; but of these part were held by tenants in copyhold, i. e., those holding by a copy of the record in the lord’s court; and part, under

Lat. Cattle or implements of husbandry ; also stolen goods taken from a thief caught in the fact. Cowell.

In old English law. The price or value of a man’s life or head. Co- well.

1. The edge or border; the edge of a body of water where it meets the land. As applied to a bouudary Hue of land, the “margin” of a river, creek, or

The seigniory of a marquis.

The officer second in command on a merchant vessel. Ely v. Peck, 7 Conn. 242; Millaudon v. Martin, 6 Rob. (La.) 539.

Marriage, (q. v.,) in the sense of the relation or status, not of the ceremony.

A tract of low or level land producing grass which Is mown for hay. Webster. A tract which lies above the shore, and is overflowed by spring and extraordinary tides only, and

Intervention; interposition ; the act of a third person who interferes between two contending parties with a view to reconcile them or persuade them to adjust or settle their dispute. In international

L. Fr. Minority; lesser age. Kelham.

Men who used in former days to ply about courts of law, so called from their manner of making known their occupation, (/.. e., by a straw iu one of their shoes,)

Merchantable; to be sold or bought.

In old records. The impost of England upon merchandise. Cowell. MERCIS APPELLATIO 774

Lat. Merchandise; movable articles that are bought and sold; articles of trade. Merx est quicquid vendi potest. Merchandise is whatever can be sold. Com. 355; 3 Wood. Lect. 263.

A system of agricultural holdings, under which the laud is divided, in small farms, among single families, the landlord generally supplying the stock which the agricultural system of the country is considered