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An English statute enacted in 1207 (52 nen. III.) at Marlbridge, (now called “Marlbor- ough,”) where parliament was then sitting. It related to land tenures, and to procedure, and to unlawful and

In old English law. The practice of selling the goods of dead seamen at the mast. Held void. 7 Mod. 141.

To enter as a student in a university. Matrimonia debent esse libera. Marriages ought to be free. A maxim of the civil law. 2 Kent, Comm. 102.

Fr. A work of the hand; a thing produced by manual labor. Yearb. M. 4 Edw. III. 38.

Men of a middle and base condition. Blount. MEDIANUS HOMO 769 MEETING

A coming together of persons ; an assembly. Particularly, in law, an assembling of a number of persons for the purpose of discussing and acting upon some matter or matters in which

Lat To be

A collection or institute of the earliest laws of ancient India. The work Is of very remote antiquity.

Fit for sale: vendible in market; of a quality such as will bring the ordinary market price. Riggs v. Armstrong, 23 W. Va. 773; Pacific Coast Elevator Co. v. Bravinder, 14 Wash.

A lake; also a marsh or fen-land.

Lat. A goal, bound, or turning-point. In old English law, the term was used to denote a bouud or boundary line of land; a landmark; a material object, as a tree or

In English law. One of the titles of an archbishop. Derived from the circumstance that archbishops were consecrated at first in the metropolis of a province. 4 Inst. 94. In England, the

Lat. In the civil law. A soldier. In old English law. A knight, because military service was part of the feudal tenure. Also a tenant by military service, not a knight. 1

In public law. One of the highest functionaries in the organization of civil government, standing next to the sovereign or executive head, acting as his immediate auxiliary, and being generally charged with

To cite falsely as a proof or argument

In practice. An error made by a judge in instructing the Jury upon the trial of a cause.

Influential in producing it. Wise v. Fuller, 29 N. J. Eq. 262. False or fraudulent misrepresention is a representation contrary to tlie fact, made by a person with a knowledge of its

L. Fr. To put, to send, or to pass; as, mittcr I’cstatc, to pass the estate; mitter le droit, to pass a right. These words are used to distinguish different kinds of

“Modification” is not exactly synonymous with “amendment,” for the former term denotes some minor change in the substance of the tiling, without reference to its improvement or de- terioration thereby, while the

In the civil law. An instant; an indivisible portion of time. Calvin. A portion of time that might be measured; a division or subdivision of an hour; an- swering in some degree