Law Dictionary

This letter, used as a Roman numeral, stands for one thousand. It was also, in old English law, a brand or stigma impressed upon the brawn of the thumb of a person convicted of man

maremium,;. Timber; wood for building.

A book kept, in England, by the registrar, in which applications for and issue of registrar’s licenses to marry are recorded.

A large staff, made of the precious metals, and highly ornamented. It is used as an emblem of authority, and carried before certain publlc functionaries by a mace-bearer. In many l

In English law. An officer attending the court of session.

In English law. One who carries the mace before certain functionaries. In Scotland, an officer attending the court of session, and usually called a “macer.”

In Roman law. A decree of the Roman senate, which derived its name from that of a certain usurer, who was the cause of its being made, in consequence of his exactions. It was inten

In Old English Law. One who willingly bought stolen goods, especially food. Brit. c. 29.

or MACEGREF. In old English law. One who bought stolen meats, knowing it to be stolen. Spelman.

macegrefs, I. fr. In old ingly bought and sold stolen flesh,

Secure against arrest.

Secure against arrest. Wharton.

A mace-bearer; an officer attending the c

mechamiuin, I. I. In old manzie.

To make a warlike device over a gate or other passage like to a grate, through which scalding water or ponderous or offensive things may he cast upon the assailants. Co. Litt. 5a.

The act by which some plot or conspiracy is contrived or set on foot; an artful design.

every mechanical device or combination of mechanical powers and devices to perform some function or to produce a certain effect or result.

A machine is a thing. A process is an act, or a mode of acting. The one is visible to the eye,—an object of perpetual observation. The other is a conception of the mind,—seen only

This term is said to be more comprehensive than "machine," including the appurtenances necessary to its working. Ill Mass. 540.

A process, eo nomine , is not made the subject of a patent in our act of Congress. It is included under the general term 'useful art.' An art may require one or more processes or m

In old English law. A bam or granary open at the top; a rick or stack of corn. Speiman.

A murderer.

In old European law. Te wound. Speiman.

Words used as a return to a scire facias when it has been served on the defendant. MAEC BURGH (Saxon). Family.

Land reclaimed by filling in along the shore of a lake or other body of water. See 28 Minn. 373, 41 Am. Rep. 290, 10 N. W. 205.

See Insanity. MitG. A kinsman. 2 Poll. & Maitl. 241. The larger group of individuals into which the Anglo-Saxon family were divided was called the inasgth or maegburh. At her marri

Insanity. See 1 Bland (Md.), 370, 17 Am. Dec. 311.

A council held in 1258 to adjust differences between the English king and the barons, which provided for the king’s closer observance of the Magna Charta and other reforms.

The subject upon which a monomania is centered. See 1 Bland (Md.), 370, 17 Am. Dec. 311.

Certain regulations prescribed for the government of the Madras presidency. Mozley & Whitley.

6 A soldier who commits larceny or robbery near camp, or while wandering from the army.' A rover in quest of plunder; a plunderer. ^

A kinsman.

or MAEGBOT. In Saxon law. A recompense or satisfaction for the slaying or murder of a kinsman. Spelman. MAEREMIUM (Law Lat. from Law Fr. marisme, timber). In old English law. Timbe

Compensation for the killing of a kinsman.

Lumber.

2 1, n. (1) In old English law, the title of several officers of different grades and powers, judicial or executive. The lord-marshal presided in the court of chivalry; the knight-

A storehouse; a warehouse. See 149 Mo. 409, 50 S. W. 901.

In English statutes. Witchcraft and sorcery.

More.

The law inclines more toward the good than toward the bad.

The more worthy appropriates to itself the less worthy.

A master.

An ecclesiastical officer who granted dispensations.

In Roman law, a person appointed by judicial authority to inventory, collect, and sell the property of an absent or absconding debtor for the banefit of his creditors he was genera

In old English law. Master in chancery.

In old English law. Master of the chancery; master in chancery. These officers were said to be called "magstri," because they were priests. Latch, 133.

Master of the horse. A title of office under the Roman Empire.

In Roman law. Master of the horse.

Pertaining to a magistrate.

The precinct and jurisdiction of a justice of the peace. See 61 Fed. (U. S.) 191, 9 C. C. A. 442.

In Roman law. Master of requests. MAGISTER NAVIS (Lat.) In civil law. Master of a ship; he to whom the whole care of a ship is given up, whether appointed by the ovsmer, or charter

The master or person in control of the litigation.

The master of a ship.

Master of the palace or of the offices. An officer under the Roman Empire bearing some resemblance to the modern lord chamberlain. Tayl. Civil Law, 37.

Use is the master of things. Co. Litt. 229b. Usage is a principal guide in practice. MAGISTER RERUM USUS; MAGISTRA rerum experlentia. Use is the master of things; experience is the

Use is the master of things; experience, the mistress.

The manager of an association or partnership.

Master of requests. A title of oflice under the Roman Empire.

In its most enlarged signification, this term includes all officers, legislative, executive, and judicial. For example, in most of the state constitutions will be found this provis

Magisterial writs, drawn by masters in chancery.

A magistrate.

In a general sense a magistrate is a public civil officer, possessing such power—legislative, executive, or judicial—as the government appointing him may ordain. In a narrow sense,

The court of a magistrate (g. v.) In South Carolina. A court having exclusive jurisdiction in matters of contract of and under twenty dollars.

In civil law. A magistrate. Calv. Lex.

The grand assize.

See "De Magna, etc."

Great beasts (oxen, etc.)

In old pleading. Great bsasts, as horses, oxen, etc. Cro. Jac. 580.

The great hundred, or six score. Wharton.

The great charter granted by King John in 1215, extending to his subjects many new rights and liberties.

Magna charta and the Charter of the Forest are called the two great charters.

To compare great things with little things.

To compare great things with small things.

Gross negligence.

Great neglect is equivalent to fraud. Dig. 50. 16. 226; 2 Spears (S. C.) 256; 1 Bouv. Inst, note 646. MAGNA NEGLIGENTIA CULPA EST; magna culpa dolus est. Gross negligence is a faul

In Civil Law. Great negligence. MAGNA SERJEANTI^., In Old English Law. The grand serjeanty, Fleta, lib. 2, c. 4, § 1.

Gross negligence is fault; gross fault is equal to fraud.

In the Civll law. Great or gross negligence.

The great charter. A famous state paper of early English times, having been granted by, or rather extorted from. King John, on the demand of the barons of the time, in revolt again

In old English law. A great or general reap-day. Cowell; Blount

In old English law. Grand serjeanty. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 4, § 1.

In old English law. Grand serjeanty. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 4, § 1.

Grand cape (g. v.)

In old English law. The great council; the general council of the realm; afterwards called "parliament." 1 Bl. Comm. 148; 1 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 62; Spelman. The king's great cou

The great statute roll. The first of the English statute rolls, beginning with Magna Charta, and ending with Edward III. Hale, Hist. Com. Law, 16, 17.

Maugre. L. Fr. Against the will; in spite of; notwithstanding. Kelham. MAHEMIUM EST HOMICIDIUM INCHOatum. Mayhem is incipient homicide. 3 Inst. 118.

In Hindu law. A banker or any great shop-keeper.

In Hindu law. Any land or public fund producing a revenue to the government of Hindostan. "Mahalaat" is the plural.

Mayhem is unfinished homicide.

Germ. In maritime law. A contract for the building of a vessel, specifying the denomination and size of the vessel, the time when she is to be completed, and the time and manner of

An instrument for beheading capital offenders.

In English practice. An assize at which no capital conviction takes place. In such a case, the sheriff of the county presents the judges with white gloves. Wharton's Lex,

In old English law. A fine paid to lords of some manors, on the marriage of tenants, originally given in consideration of the lord's relinquishing his customary right of lying the

A brasier's shop, or, perhaps, a house. Cowell.

See "Mayhem;" "Malm."

Maimed.

or MAIHEM. Mayhem (g. V.) MAIHEMIUM EST INTER CRIMINA MAjora minimum, et inter minora maximum. Mayhem is the least of great crimes, and the greatest of small. Co. Litt. 127. MAIHEM

3 Inst. 118. Mayhem is incipient homicide,

Mayhem is the least among the greater crimes and the grossest among the lesser ones.

Mayhem is the mutilation of a limb and can be said to take place when anyone is so injured in any part of his body as to be rendered useless for fighting.