Category: M

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.

In criminal law. A general name for criminal offenses of every sort, punishable by indictment or special proceedings, which do not in law amount to the grade of felony. A misdemeanor is

Beading a deed or other Instrument to an illiterate or blind man (who is a party to it) in a false or deceitful manner, so that he conceives a wrong idea of

In French law. The joint ownership of two neighbors in a wall, ditch, or hedge which separates their estates.