Category: M

Lat. Mercy; a fine or amerciament; an arbitrary or discretionary amercement.

In maritime law. A vessel is so called when, computed from her known day of sailing, the time that has elapsed exceeds the average duration of similar voyages at the same season

The mixture or confusion of goods or chattels belonging severally to different owners, in such a way that they can no longer be separated or distinguished; as where two measures of wine

The secret killing of another; murder. 4 Bl. Comm. 194.

A book giving an account of monasteries, convents, and religious houses.

In commercial law. A privilege or peculiar advantage vested in one or more persons or companies, consisting in the exclusive right (or power) to carry on a particular business or trade, manufacture

Lat He delays In law. The phrase describes the action of one who demurs, because the party does not proceed in pleading, but rests or abides upon the judgment of the court

Sax. Murder, answering exactly to the French “assassinat” or “mucrtre de guet-apens.”

v. Sayre, 3 N. J. Law, 187.

In old records. A wether sheep. Multo ntilins est pauca idonea efnap dere quam multis inutilibus homines gravari. 4 Coke, 20. It is more useful to pour forth a few useful things

In old English law. The killing of a man in a secret manner.

Reciprocation; interchange. An acting by each of two parties; an acting In return. In every agreement the parties must, as regards tlie principal or essential part of the transaction, intend the same

Contriving a plot or conspiracy. The act of planning or contriving a scheme for executing some purpose, particularly an evil purpose; an artful design formed with deliberation.

This term may have a more or less extensive signification according to the use and connection in which it occurs. In its widest sense it includes the whole body ?of public functionaries,

In English law. Originally an assize at which no person was condemned to die. Now it is a session of a criminal court at which there are no prison- ers to be

In old practice. A surety for the appearance of a person under arrest, who is delivered out of custody into the hands of his bail. “Mainpernors” differ from “bail” in that a

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.