Category: M

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.

An adverse event, calamity, or evil fortune, arising by accident, (or without the will or concurrence of him who suffers from it,) and not to be foreseen or guarded against by care

In Scotch law. Writings passed between parties as evidence of a transaction. Bell.

An assemblage of many people, acting in a violent and disorderly manner, defying the law, and committing, or threatening to commit, depredations upon property or violence to persons. Alexander v. State, 40

A system of native law prevailing among the Mohammedans in India, and administered there by the British government.

Mintage, or the right of coining money. Cowell. Hence, anciently, a tribute payable to a lord who had the prerogative of coining money, by his tenants, in consideration of his refraining from

L. Fr. In English law. A showing or manifestation of right; one of the common law methods of obtaining possession or restitution from the crown, of either real or personal property. It

Lat. In old pleading. In husband-like manner. Townsh. PL 198.

Murder. Cowell.

See CAUTIO.

Antic diversions in the Christmas holidays, suppressed in Queen Anne’s time.

In old Scotch law. Mur- ther or murder. Skene.

To borrow; mutuatus, a borrowing. 2 Arch. Pr. 25.

In patent law. Any contrivance used to regulate or augment force or motion; more properly, a complex structure, cousisting of a combination, or peculiar modification, of the mechanical powers.The term “machine,” in

framed by the masters or principal clerks of the chancery. Bract, fol. 4136; Crabb, Com. Law, 547, 548.

A fine paid by the tenants of some manors to the lord for a license to marry a daughter. Cowell. Or, perhaps, for the lord’s omitting the custom of marclicta, (q. v.)

The delivery of a person into the custody of mainpernors, (q. v.) Also the name of a writ (now obsolete) commanding the sheriff to take the security of main- pernors and set