Category: M

In Saxon and old English law. An unjust or irregular summoning to court; to speak unsteadily in court; to vary in one’s plea. Cowell; Blount; Spelman.

Some unintentional act, omission, or error arising from ignorance, sur- prise, imposition, or misplaced confidence. Code Ga.

Lat. Movables; movable things; otherwise called “res mobiles.” Mobilia non habent situm. Movables have no situs or local habitation. Holmes v. Remsen, 4 Johns. (N. Y.) Ch. 472, 8 Am. Dee. 581.

A gold coin of Portugal, valued at twenty-seven English shillings.

A dealer or seller. It is seldom or never used alone, or otherwise than after the name of any commodity, to express a seller of such commodity.

A box in which relics are kept; also a muster of soldiers. Cowell.

See MARRIAGE.

Lat. By reason of death; iu contemplation of death. Thus used in the phrase “Donatio mortis causa,” (q. v.) Mortis momentum est ultimum vita momentum. The last moment of life is the

A mulatto is defined to be “a person that is the offspring of a negress by a white man, or of a white woman by a negro.” Thurman v. State, 18 Ala.

A receiving into favor and protection. Cowell.

In old English law. A moss or marsh ground, or a place where sedges grow; a place overrun with moss. Cowell.

Lat. In civil and old English law. Dumb and deaf. MUTUUM 801 MYSTIC TESTAMENT

In old European law. To wound. Spelman. MAD POINT 744 MAGISTRALIA BREVIA

The great hundred, or six score. Wharton.

Maimed or wounded.

In pleading. A technical word indispensable In an indictment for maintenance. 1 Wils. 325.

One who makes, frames, or ordains; as a “law-maker.” One who makes or executes; as the maker of a promissory note. See Aud v. Magruder, 10 Cal. 290; Sawyers v. Campbell, 107

A curse.

n. Lat. In Roman law. A mast; the mast of a ship. Dig. 50, 17, 242, pr. Held to be part of the ship. Id. MALUM, adj. Lat. Wrong; evil; wicked reprehensible.

Lat. In Roman law. The momentary condition in which a filius, etc., might be when iu course of emaucipation from the potestas, and before that emancipa- tion was absolutely complete. The condition