Category: M

In military law. An officer next in rank above a brigadier general, and next below a lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or an army corps. Major licereditas venit unicuique

A crime; an offense.

Lat. In an evil sense or meaning; with an evil signification.

Lat. Iu Roman law. To sell, alienate, or make over to another; to sell with certain formalities; to sell a person ; one of the forms observed in the process of emancipation.

(I have commanded or made my mandate to the bailiff.) In English practice. The return made by a sheriff, where the bailiff of a liberty has the execution of a writ, that

In old English law. A habitation or dwelling, generally with land attached. Spelmau. A residence or dwelling-house for the parish priest; a parsonage or vicarage house. Cowell. Still used in Scotch law

In old F.nglish practice. A writ wlrich lay for a man taken on suspicion of felony, and the like, who could not be admitted to bail by the sheriff, or others having

In old records. A mere or moor; a lake, pool, or pond; a bog or marsh that cannot be drained. Cowell; Blount; Spelman.

An officer in Scotland, who, with tbe lord high constable, possessed a supreme itinerant jurisdiction in all crimes MARISCUS 760

In old English law. The title borne by several officers of state and of the law, of whom the most important were the following: (1) The earl-marshal, who presided in the court

Lat. In the civil law. Materials; as distinguished from spccies, or the form given by labor and skill. Dig. 41, 1, 7, 7-12; Fleta. lib. 3, c. 2.

A married woman; an elderly woman. The female superintendent of an establishment or institution, such as a hospital, an orphan asylum, etc., is often so called.

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.