Category: M

Lat In the civil law. The employing party in a contract of mandate. One who gives a tiling in charge to another; one who requires, requests, or employs another to do some

Formal words introduced at the conclusion of a traverse. Their object is to put the party whose pleading is traversed not only to the proof that the matter of fact denied is,

To pick pockets.

In old English law. To occupy ; to use or cultivate; to have in manual occupation; to bestow manual labor upon. Cowell.

Lat The sea.

In practice and conveyancing. One who makes his mark; a person who cannot write, and only makes his mark In executing instruments. Arch. N. Pr. 13; 2 Chit. 92.

In the civil law. A mass; an unwrought substance, such as gold or silver, before it is wrought into cups or other articles. Dig. 47, 2, 52, 14; Fleta, lib. 2, c.

society, whereof a list was made. Hence those who are admitted to a college or uni- versity are said to be “matriculated.” Also a kind of almshouse, which had revenues appropriated to

Fr. A hand; handwriting. Britt C. 28.

In old English law. Midnight. Ad mediam noctem, at midnight Fleta, lib. 5, c. 5,

A harvest supper or entertainment given to laborers at harvest-home. Cowell.

A slip or small piece of land.

The act of lying; a falsehood.

A man who traffics or carries on trade with foreign countries, or who exports and imports goods and sells them by wholesale. Webster. Merchants of this de- scription are commonly known by

See Ex MERO MOTU; MERE MOTION.

A mongrel or person of mixed blood; sometimes used as equivalent to “octoroon,” that is, the child of a white person and a quadroon, sometimes as denoting a person one of whose

A mother city; one from which a colony was sent out. The capital of a province. Calvin.

A measure of length or distance, containing 8 furlongs, or 1,760 yards, or 5,280 feet. This is the measure of an ordinary or statute mile; but the nautical or geographical mile contains

An old form of muniment, (q. v.) Blount. Minimum est niliilo proximum. The smallest is next to nothing.

In old English law. The mlse or issue in a writ of right. Spelman. In old records. A compact or agreement; a form of compromise. Cowell.