MAJORITY
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
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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
In old English law. A manor.Manerinm dicitur a manendo, secundum excellentiam, sedes magna, Sua, et stabilis. Co. Litt. 58. A manor is so called from manendo, according to its excellence, a seat
A dwelling-house or place of residence, including its appurtenant out- buildings. Thompson v. People, 3 Parker, Cr. R. (N. Y.) 214 ; Comm. v. Pennock, 3 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 199; Armour
A building, the main or principal design or use of which is to be a place for producing articles as products of labor; not merely a place where something may be made
A mark ; a coin of the value of 13s. 4d. Spelman.
An obsolete writ for the tenant In frank-marriage to recover lands, etc., of which he was deforced.
In English law. A prison belonging to the king’s bench. It has now been consolidated with others, under the name of the “King’s Prison.”
The property or character of being material. See MATERIAL.
Facts; substance as distinguished from form; the merits of a case.
1. The instrument or agency through which an end or purpose is accom- plished. 2. Resources; available property; money or property, as an available instrumentality for effecting a purpose, furnishing a livelihood,
A judicial writ to distrain a lord for the acquitting of a mesne lord from a rent, which he had acknowledged in court not to belong to him. Reg. Jur. 129.
Lat. Better; the better. Mclior res, the better (best) thing or chattel. Bract, fol. 60. Melior est conditio defendentis. The condition of the party in possession is the better one, i. e.,
Lat. Patrimony or goods and necessary things for livelihood. Jacob. A table; the table of a money-changer. Dig. 2, 14, 47.
The practice of buying and selling.
The mere right of property in land; the jus proprietatis, without either possession or even the right of possession. 2 Bl. Comm. 197. The abstract right of property.
In Danish sea law. One of a ship’s papers; a certificate of admeas- urement granted at the home port of a vessel by the government or by some other competent authority. Jac.
A staff of a certain length wherewith measures are taken