Category: M

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

A warlike instrument for casting stones against the walls of a castle. Cowell.

Iu old English law. A mansion or house. Spelman.

The act of liberating a slave from bondage and giving him freedom. In a wider sense, releasing or delivering one person from the power or control of another. See Fenwick v. Chapman,

In French mercantile law. Damaged goods.

Relating to, or connected with, the status of marriage; pertaining to a husband; incident to a husband.

Lat. To run by its own force. A term applied in the civil law to a suit when it ran Its course to the end without any impediment Calvin.

Lat. A maxim of the French law, signifying that property of a decedent acquired by him through his mother descends to the relations on the mother’s side.

Fr. In spite of; against the will of. Litt. S 672. MAUNDY THURSDAY 767 MEANDER