Category: M

In old records. A mill.

A memorial, superscription, or record.

In Spanish law. Forests or woods. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 1, c. 6, 5 1.

This phrase, inserted in a conveyance of land immediately after the statement of the quantity of land conveyed, means that such statement is uot to be taken as a warranty of the

In Scotch law. A term nearly synonymous with “mortmain.” Bell. Lands are said to be mortified for a charitable purpose.

. 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;

An assemblage of rnanj people. According to Coke it is not a word of very precise meaning; for some authorities hold that there must be at least ten persons to make a

The crime committed where a person of sound mind and discretion (that is, of sufficient age to form and execute a criminal design and not legally “insane”) kills any human creature in

Interchangeable; reciprocal; each acting in return or correspondence to the other; given and received; spokeu of an engagement or relation in which like duties and obligations are exchanged. “Mutual” is not synonymous

In old English law. One who buys stolen goods, particularly food, knowing it to have been stolen.

In English statutes. Witchcraft and sorcery.

In old English law. Grand serjeanty. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 4,

To deprive a person of a member or part of the btfdy. the loss of which renders him less capable of fighting: to commit mayhem, (q. v.) State v. Johnson, 58 Ohio

A house, mansion, or farm. Cowell.

This term is used, in the law-books, interchangeably with mis-administration, and both words mean “wrong administration.” Minkler v. State, 14 Neb. 1S3, 15 N. W. 331.

Hotchkiss v. Porter, 30 Conn. 414.

In French law. This word is applied to all grave and punishable faults committed in the exercise qf a charge or commission, (office,) such as corruption, exaction, concussion, larceny. Merl. Repert.

305, 47 N. E. 623; Atlanta v. Wright, 119 Ga. 207, 45 S. E. 004; State v. Lewis, 76 Mo. 370; Ex parte Crane, 5 Pet. 190, 8 L. Ed. 92; Marbury

In maritime law. A sea- letter ; a written document required to he carried by merchant vessels, containing an account of the cargo, with other particulars, for the facility of tbe customs

A word sometimes used synonymously with “kidnapping,” (