Category: M

In Spanish law. Manner or mode. Las Partidas, pt. 4, tit. 4, 1. 2.

A bastard. Cowell.

The same as mainpernors, (q. v.)

“A marauder is defined in the law to be ‘one who, while employed in the army as a soldier, commits larceny or robbery in the neighborhood of the camp, or while wandering

A marshy or fenny ground. Co. Litt. 5GT.

Arranging, ranking, or disposing in order; particularly, in the case of a group or series of conflicting claims or interests, arranging them in such an order of sequence, or so directing the

Important; more or less necessary; having influence or effect; going to the merits; having to do with matter, as distinguished from form. An allegation is said to be material when it forms

Such a jury is impaneled to try if a woman condemned to death be with child.

To meander means to follow a winding or flexuous course: and when it is said, in a description of land, “thence with the meander of the river,” It must mean a meandered

A box containing an assortment of medicines, required by stat- BL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)

In medical jurisprudence. A kind of mental unsoundness char- acterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill- grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideaa Webster. See INSANITY.

A servant of the lowest order; more strictly, a domestic servant living under his master’s roof. Boniface v. Scott, 3 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 354.

Belonging to trade.

Sax. A marsh. Spelman.

A house and its appurtenance. Cowell.

An Instrument of measurement; as a coal-meter, a gas-meter, a land- meter.

In old English law. Theft; cheating.

This term means merely coined money; and it is not necessary that it should be marked or rolled on the edges. Leach, 708.

The state or condition of a minor; infancy. The smaller number of votes of a deliberative assembly; opposed to majority, (which see.)

Mixture of races; marriage between persons of different races; as between a white person and a negro.