Category: M

Marshy ground overflowed by the sea or great rivers. Co. Litt. 5.

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.

Having relation to, or produced or accomplished by, the use of mechanism or machinery. Used chielly in patent law. See compound terms infra.

In old English law. Meantime; mesne profits. Cowell.

To be better inquired into. In old English, law. The name of a writ commanding a further inquiry respecting a matter; as, after an imperfect inquisition in proceedings in outlawry, to have

In the civil law. A measurer of laud; a surveyor. Dig. 11, 6; Id. 50, 6, 6; Cod. 12, 28.

The law of the Mercians. One of the three principal systems of laws which prevailed in England about the beginning of the eleventh century. It was observed In many of the midland

In old English law. A stone for bounding or dividing lands. Yearb. P. 18 Hen. VI. 5.

In Danish sea law. One of a ship’s papers; a certificate of admeas- urement granted at the home port of a vessel by the government or by some other competent authority. Jac.

A staff of a certain length wherewith measures are taken

The middle thread of a stream is an imaginary line drawn lengthwise through the middle of Its current.

The name of a piece of money in the coinage of Portugal, and the Azores and Madeira islands. Its value at the custom-house, according as it is coined in the first, second,

The state or condition of a minor; infancy. The smaller number of votes of a deliberative assembly; opposed to majority, (which see.)

Mixture of races; marriage between persons of different races; as between a white person and a negro.

See MISFEASANCE.

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,

The mixture or confusion of goods or chattels belonging severally to different owners, in such a way that they can no longer be separated or distinguished; as where two measures of wine