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.)