Category: M

Tables for estimating the probable duration of the life of a party at a given age. Gallagher v. Market St. Ry. Co., G7 Cal. 16, 6 Pac. 871, 51 Am. Rep. 6S0.

In Spanish law. Movables; all sorts of personal property. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 3, c. 1,

In old English law. Peace; whence mundbryc, a breach of the peace.

A building or institution for the cultivation of science or the exhibition of curiosities or works of art. The term “museum” embraces not only collections of curiosities for the entertain- ment of

A person who borrows personal chattels to be consumed by him and returned to the lender in kind and quantity ; the borrower in a contract of mutuum.

A more comprehensive term than “machine;” Including the appur- tenances necessary to the working of a machine. Seavey v. Central Mut. F. Ins. Co., Ill Mass. 540.

This term may have a more or less extensive signification according to the use and connection in which it occurs. In its widest sense it includes the whole body ?of public functionaries,

In maritime law. The German name for the contract for the building of a vessel. This contract contains a specification of the kind of vessel intended, her dimensions, the time within which

A trespass committed by hand. See 7 Rich. II. c. 4.

A person of full age; one who is no longer a minor; one who has attained the management of his own concerns and the enjoyment of his civic rights. In military law.

In Hindu law. A treasury or store-house.

Lat. Actual evil design; express malice.

A mansion-house or dwelling-place. Cowell.

He to whom a mandate, charge, or commandment is given; also, he that obtains a benefice by mandamus. Briggs v. Spaulding, 141 U. S. 132, 11 Sup. Ct 924, 35 L. Ed.

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.

Lat In Roman law. The hire or wages of labor; compensation for labor or services performed. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, 5 413.

In old Scotch law. A custom for the lord of a fee to lie the first night with the bride of his tenant. Abolished by Malcolm III. Spelman; 2 Bl. Comm. 83.

In old English law. Marine increases. Lands gained from the sea. Hale, de Jure Mar. pt 1, c. 4.

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.