Category: M

An agent between two parties, an intermediary who performs the office of a broker or factor between seller and buyer, producer and consumer, land- owner and tenant, etc. Southack v. Lane, 32

In old records. To mine or dig mines. Minator, a miner. Cowell.

Lat. In the civil law. Less; less than. The word had also, in some con- nections, the sense of “not at all.” For example. a debt remaining wholly unpaid was described as

Any unlawful conduct on the part of a person concerned in the ad- ministration of justice which is prejudicial to the rights of parties or to the right deter- mination of the

To deposit in a place not afterwards recollected; to lose anything by for- getfulness of the place where it was laid. Shehane v. State, 13 Tex. App. 535.

A trade or calling. Cowell.

A kind of cloth made in England, mentioned in St. 23 Eliz. c. 9.

The half of anything. Joint tenants are said to hold by moieties. Litt. 125; 3 C. B. 274, 283.

Ministers of the mint; also bankers. Cowell.

In Spanish law. Forests or woods. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 1, c. 6, 5 1.

A gift on the moruiug after the wedding; dowry; the husband’s gift to his wife on the day after the wedding. Du Cange; Cowell.

A term applied to denote the alienation of lands or tenements to any corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal. These purchases having been chiefly made by religious houses, in consequence of

A penalty or punishment imposed on a person guilty of some offense, tort, or misdemeanor, usually a pecuniary flue or condemnation in damages. See Cook v. Marshall County, 119 Iowa, 384, 93

n old French law. A tribute paid by a church or monastery to their seignorial avouds and vidamcs, as the price of protecting them. Steph. Leet. 230.

To assemble together troops and their arms, whether for inspection, drill, or service in the field. To take recruits into the service in the army and inscribe their names on the muster-roll

Eat. In the law of bailments. A loan for consumption ; a loan of chattels, upon an agreement that the borrower may consume them, returning to the lender an equivalent in kind

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.