MISFORTUNE
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
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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.
A more comprehensive term than “machine;” Including the appur- tenances necessary to the working of a machine. Seavey v. Central Mut. F. Ins. Co., Ill Mass. 540.
A public officer belonging to the civil organization of the state, and invested with powers and functions which may be either judicial, legislative, or executive. But the term is commonly used in
A brasier’s shop, or, perhaps, a house. Cowell.
Forsworn, by making false oath with hand (main) on book. Used In the north of England. BrownL 4; Hob. 125.
Full age; the age at which, by law, a person is entitled to the manage- ment of his own affairs and to the enjoyment of civic rights. The opposite of minority. Also
Maleficia propositi! distinguuntur. Jenk. Cent. 290. Evil deeds are distinguished from evil purposes, or by their purposes.
A substance produced from barley or other grain by a process of steeping in water uutil germination begins and then drying in a kiln, thus converting the starch Into saccharine matter. See
Lat. In Roman law. A certain ceremony or formal process anciently required to be performed, to perfect the sale or conveyance of res mancipi, (land, houses, slaves, horses, or cattle.) The parties