Category: M

Eng. To practice crimes requiring concealment or secrecy; to pilfer articles secretly, ilichcr, one who practices secret crime. Webster.

Lat. Knights; and, in Scotch law, freeholders.

Office; service. Those members of the government who are in the cabinet.

Ill conduct; improper or unlawful behavior. Verdicts are sometimes set aside on the ground of misbehavior of jurors. Smith v. Cutler, 10 Wend. (N. Y.) 590, 25 Am. Dec. 580; Turnbull v.

which was commonly used to be given by the ordinary to such condemned malefactors as were allowed the benefit of clergy; whence it is also called the “psalm of mercy.” Wharton.

In Roman law. Gifts or liberalities, which the prators and consuls were iu the habit of throwing among the people. Inst. 2, 1, 45.

Formed by admixture or commingling; partaking of the nature, character, or legal attributes of two or more distinct kinds or classes.

Fr. Movable. Biens moeblcs, movable goods. Britt. c. 11.

A monastery; a church. Spelman.

The sole power, right, or privilege of sale ; monopoly; a monopoly. Calvin.

Lat. For the purpose of delaying or postponing payment or performance.

He that gives a mortgage.

By statute in some states, the mouth of a river or creek, which empties into another river or creek, is defined as the point where the middle of the channel of each

An assemblage of rnanj people. According to Coke it is not a word of very precise meaning; for some authorities hold that there must be at least ten persons to make a

The crime committed where a person of sound mind and discretion (that is, of sufficient age to form and execute a criminal design and not legally “insane”) kills any human creature in

Interchangeable; reciprocal; each acting in return or correspondence to the other; given and received; spokeu of an engagement or relation in which like duties and obligations are exchanged. “Mutual” is not synonymous

In old English law. One who buys stolen goods, particularly food, knowing it to have been stolen.

In English statutes. Witchcraft and sorcery.

In maritime law. The German name for the contract for the building of a vessel. This contract contains a specification of the kind of vessel intended, her dimensions, the time within which

A trespass committed by hand. See 7 Rich. II. c. 4.