Category: M

A misdeed or trespass. The doing what a party ought to do improperly. 1 Tidd, Pr. 4. The improper performance of some act which a man may lawfully do. 3 Steph. Comm.

Lat. In the civil law. A sending or putting. Missio in bona, a putting the creditor in possession of the debtor’s property. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

Lat. In old English law. Mixed authority; a kind of civil power. A term applied by Lord Hale to the “power” of certain subordinate civil magistrates as distinct from “jurisdiction.” Hale, Anal.

In Hindu law. Separated; particularized ; the subordinate divisions of a district in contradistinction to Sadder or Sudder, which implies the chief seat of gov- ernment. Wharton.

Moneta est jnstum medium et mensu- ra rerum commutabilium, nam per medium monetae fit omnium rerum conveniens et jnsta aestimatio. Da v. Ir. K. B. IS. Money is tlie just medium and

A prodigious birth; a human birth or offspring not having the shape of mankind, which cannot be heir to any land, albeit it be brought forth in marriage. Bract fol. 5; Co.

Otherwise called “Ilerrn- hutters” or “United Brethren.” A sect of Christians whose social polity is particular and conspicuous, it sprung up in Moravia and Bohemia, on the opening of that reformation which

A murderer. Cowell.

. To make an application to a court for a rule or order. 2. To propose a resolution, or recommend action in a deliberative body. 3. To pass over; to be transferred;

In medical jurisprudence. A term applied to the complete drying up of the body. It is the result ? burial in a dry, hot soil, or the exposure of the body to

Lat. The service of work and labor done by inhabitants and adjoining tenants in building or repairing the walls of a city or castle; their personal service was commuted into murage, (q.

The person who lends chattels in the contract of mutuum, (q. v.)

In patent law. Any contrivance used to regulate or augment force or motion; more properly, a complex structure, cousisting of a combination, or peculiar modification, of the mechanical powers.The term “machine,” in

framed by the masters or principal clerks of the chancery. Bract, fol. 4136; Crabb, Com. Law, 547, 548.

A fine paid by the tenants of some manors to the lord for a license to marry a daughter. Cowell. Or, perhaps, for the lord’s omitting the custom of marclicta, (q. v.)

The delivery of a person into the custody of mainpernors, (q. v.) Also the name of a writ (now obsolete) commanding the sheriff to take the security of main- pernors and set

The king’s dignity, power, and royal prerogative, as opposed to his revenue, which is comprised in the minora regalia. 2 Steph. Comm. 475; 1 Bl. Comm. 240. Majore poena affectus quam legibus

He who is guilty, or has been convicted, of some crime or offense. Maleficia non debent remanere irn- pnnita; et impnnitas continuum affectum tribuit delinquenti. 4 Coke, 45. Evil deeds ought not

and proceeding from ignorance, carelessness, want of proper professional skill, disregard of established rules or principles, neglect, or a malicious or criminal intent. See Itodgers v. Kline, 56 Miss. 816, 31 Am.

To enslave ; to bind ; to tie.