MALO GRATO
Lat. In spite}_unwil} ingly.
Terms beginning with "M" (452 total)
MALO SENSU
Lat. In jaii-evil ‘dense or meaning; with an evil sign fleation. é
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6, 9, and 10, Mele kell's Tennessee Reports. <:
MALPRACTICE
utes, made severely penal. Jacob.—Malicionus. prosecution. A judicial proceeding instituted against a person out of the prosecutor’s malice and ill will, with the intention of injuring him, without probable cause to ...
MALUM, n
Lat. In Roman law. A mast; the mast of a ship. Dig. 50, 17, 242, pr. Held to be part of the ship. Id.
MALVEIS PROOCURORS. IL
Fr. Such as used to pack juries, by the nomination of either party in a cause, or other practice. Cowell.
Mam King, 2 Wheat
148, 4 L. Ed. 206; De lano v. Bedford Ins. Co., 10 Mass. 351, 6 Am.
Mamie (D. C.) 5 Fed
818; Reed v. Ingham, 26 Eng. Law & Eq. 167.
MANACLES
shackles, MANAGE. To conduct; to carry on; to
MANAGE
den by positive law; an act involving an ile gality resulting from positive law. Contrasted with malum in se. Story, Ag. § 846. 219, 35 Pac. 677; Saunders v. United States
MANCA, MANOUS, or MANOUSA. A
square piece of gold coin, commonly valued at thirty pence. Cowell.
MANCEPS
Lat. In Roman law. ‘A purchaser; one who took the article sold in his hand; a formality observed in certain sales. Calvin. A farmer of the public taxes.
MANCIPARE
Lat. In Roman law. To sell, alienate, or make over to another; to sell with certain formalities; to sell a person; one of the forms observed in the process of emancipation.
MANCIPI RES
Lat. In Roman law. Certain classes of things which could not be aliened or transferred except by means of a certain formal ceremony of conveyance called “mancipatio,” (q. v.) These included land, houses, slaves, hors...
MANCIPIUM
Lat. In Roman law. The momentary condition in which a filius, etc., might be when in course of emancipation from the potestas, and before that emancipation was absolutely complete. The condition was not like the dominica...
MANDAMUS
was also used by a father in making a fictitious sale of his son, which sale, when three times repeated, effectuated the emancipation of the son. : 805, 47 N. E. 623; Atlanta v. Wright, 119
MANDANS
Lat. In the civillaw. The employing party in a contract of mandate.
MANDATAIRE
Fr. In French law. A person employed by another to do some act for him; a mandatary.
MANDATORY
the statute absolutely void; if the provision is such that disregard of it will constitute an irregularity, but one not necessarily fatal, it Is said to be directory. So, the mandatory part of a writ is that which comman...
MANDAVI BALLIVO
(I have commanded or made my mandate to the balliff.) In English practice. The return made by a sheriff, where the bailiff of a liberty has the execution of a writ, that he has commanded the bailiff to execute it. 1 Tidd...
MANIA
MANIFEST. In maritime law. A sealetter; a written document required to be carried by merchant vessels, containing an account of the cargo, with other particulars, for the facility of the customs officers. See
Manifesta probatione non indigent
7% Coke, 40. Things manifest do not require proof.
MANNER AND FORM; MODO ET
FORMA. 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, in its general effect, true as allege...
MANOIPATIO
Lat. In Roman law. A certaln ceremony or formal process anciently required to be performed, to perfect the sale or conveyance of res mancipi, (land, houses, slaves, horses, or cattle.) The parties were present, (vendor a...
MANOR
executive authority of a state or nation, proclaiming its reasons and motiyes for declaring a war, or for any other important international action.
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served for his own use; but of these part were held by tenants in copyhold, i. ec., those holding by a copy of the record in the lord’s court; and part, under the name of the “lord’s waste,” served for public roa...
MANSUETUS
Lat. ‘Tame; as though accustomed to come to the hand. 2 BL
MANU BREVI
malice, either express or implied; which may be either voluntarily, upon a sudden heat, or involuntarily, but in the commission of some uDlawful act. 1 Hale, P. C. 466; 4 BI. Lat. With a_ short hand. A term used in the ...
MANU FORTI
ing shortly; directly; by the _ shortest _ course; without circuity. Lat. With strong hand. A term used in old writs of trespass. AMunu fortt et cum multitudine gentium, with strong band and multitude of people. Reg.
MANU LONGA
Lat. With a long hand. A term used in the civil law, signifying indirectly or circuitously. Calvin:
MANU OPERA
Lat. Cattle or implements of husbandry; also stolen goods taken from a thief caught in the fact. Cowell.
Manufacturing Co
v. Gridley. 28 Conn. 212:
MANUFACTURING CORPORATION
A corporation engaged in the production of
MANUNG
hand,” but this definition is too narrow for its present use. Its meaning has expanded as workmanship and art have advanced, so that now nearly all artificial products of human industry, nearly all such materials as ha...
MANUPES
MANUPES. In old English law. A foot of full and legal measure.
MANUPRETIUM
Lat. In Roman law. The hire or wages of labor; compensation for labor or services performed. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 418. ‘
Manw
(or Manw. Fer. Lawi). Man-
MANZIE
mutilation of the body of a person.
MAOTATOR
L. Lat. In old European law. A murderer.
Mar
lib. 1, c. 5, §§ 1-6. lib. 2, c. 5, § 10. 10; The Harriet, 1 Story, 251, 259, par. 2, c. 2. And see Lowndes v. Board of Trustees, 153 U. S. 1, 14 Sup. Ct. 758, 38 lib. 1, c 6. L.C.N.8S. English Maritime Law Cases...
Mar. & Div
502. Obsolete. SIGNING JUDGMENT. Im English
Mar. Sett
92.—Mlarriage brokage. The act by which a third person, for a consideration, negotiates a marriage between a man and wo man. The money paid for such services is also known by this name. Hellen v. Anderson, 83 Ill. App....
Marble Co., 25 Wash
h. 475, 65 Pac. 782.—Managers of a conference. Members of the houses of parliament appointed to represent each house at a conference between the two houses. It is an ancient rule that the number of commons named for a ...
Marble Co., 61 Vt
106, 17 Atl. 483; Metropolitan Bank v. Muller, 50 La. Ann. 1278, 2
March
2, 1798, § 61; 1 Story, Laws, 629.
March 3, 1879, (20 St
at Large, 484,) and the state boards of health created by the legislatures of most of the states. Local boards of health are charged with more direct and immediate means of securing the public health, and exercise inquis...
March 8, 1891 (U. S. Comp. St
1901, p. 488), composed of the circuit justice, the circuit judge, and an additional circuit Judge appointed for each such court, and having appellate jurisdiction from the circuit and district courts except in certain s...
MARCHANDISES AVARIEES. In
French mercantile law. Damaged goods.
MARCHETA
marsh that cannot be drained. Cowell; Blount; Spelman. ;
MARCHIONESS
MARCHIONESS. A dignity in a woman answerable to that of marquis in a man, conferred either by creation or by marriage with a marguis:; Wharton.