Category: M

In old English law. A manor.Manerinm dicitur a manendo, secundum excellentiam, sedes magna, Sua, et stabilis. Co. Litt. 58. A manor is so called from manendo, according to its excellence, a seat

A dwelling-house or place of residence, including its appurtenant out- buildings. Thompson v. People, 3 Parker, Cr. R. (N. Y.) 214 ; Comm. v. Pennock, 3 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 199; Armour

A building, the main or principal design or use of which is to be a place for producing articles as products of labor; not merely a place where something may be made

A mark ; a coin of the value of 13s. 4d. Spelman.

An obsolete writ for the tenant In frank-marriage to recover lands, etc., of which he was deforced.

In English law. A prison belonging to the king’s bench. It has now been consolidated with others, under the name of the “King’s Prison.”

The property or character of being material. See MATERIAL.

Facts; substance as distinguished from form; the merits of a case.

not the meander line as naturally run on the ground, is the boundary. St. I’aul & P. R. Co. v. Schurmeier, 7 Wall. 280. 10 L. Ed. 74; Nilcs v. Cedar Point

Relating to the law concerning medical questions.

In Saxon law. The recompense due and given to him who made dis- covery of any breach of penal laws committed by another person, called the “promot- er’s [i. e., informer’s] fee.”

Lat. Mind; intention; meaning; understanding; will.

Lat. A market. A eon- tract of sale. Supplies for au army, (com- m vat us.)

The free and voluntary act of a party himself, done without the suggestion or influence of another person, is said to be done of his mere motion, ex mcro motu, (q. v.)

A manor held under a superior lord. The estate of a mesne.

In conveyancing. The boundary lines of lands, with their terminating points or angles. People v. Guthrie, 40 111. App. 128; Rollins v. Mooers, 25 Me. 190.

A phrase used In logic to denote the term which occurs in both of the premises in the syllogism, being the means of bringing together the two terms in the conclusion.

The name of a piece of money in the coinage of Portugal, and the Azores and Madeira islands. Its value at the custom-house, according as it is coined in the first, second,

The place designated by law where bullion is coined into money under authority of the government. Also a place of privilege in Southward, near the king’s prison, where persons for- merly sheltered

An erroneous charge; a charge, given by a court to a jury, which involves errors for which the judgment may be reversed.