MARESCHAL
L. Fr. Marshal; a high officer of the royal household. Britt. fol. 10.
Terms beginning with "M" (452 total)
MARGIN
1. The edge or border; the edge of a body of water where it meets the land. As applied to a boundary line of land, the “margin” of a river, creek, or other water-course means the center of the stream.
MARISCHAL
merinarius capitaneus was the admiral or warden of the ports.
MARISCUS
committed within a certain space of the
MARITAGIO AMISSO PER DEFALT
AM. An obsolete writ for the tenant in frank-marriage to recover lands, etc. of which he was deforced.
MARITIME
fPfertaining to the sea or ocean or the navigation thereof; or to commerce conducted by navigation of the sea or (in America) of the great lakes and rivers. ducted by navigation or to be done upon the sea or in ports. O...
MARITUB
33, 18 L. Ed. 125; Holmes v. Oregon & C. Ry.
MARK
1.4A character, usually in the form of a cross, made as a2 substitute for his signature by a person who cannot write, in executing a conveyance or other legal document. It is commonly made as follows: A third person writ...
MARKET
92, 38 N. W. 714; Strickland v. Pennsylvania R. Co., 154 Pa. 348, 26 Atl. 481, 21 L. R. A. 224. It differs from the forum, or Yharket of antiquity, which was a_ public market-place on one side only, or during one part of...
MARKETABLE
MARKETABLE. Such things as may he. sold in the market; those for which a buyer may be found. —Marketable title. A “marketable title’ to land is such a title as a court of equity, when asked to decree specific perfo...
MARLBRIDGE, STATUTE OF. An
English statute enacted in 1267 (52 Hen. IIJ.) at Marlbridge, (now called ‘“Marliborough,”) where parliament was then sitting. It related to land tenures, and to procedure, and to unlawful and excessive distresses.
Marmaduke
91 Mo. 250, 4 8. W. 91, 60 Am.
MARQUE AND REPRISAL, LET
FERS OF. These words, “marque” and “reprisal,” are frequently used a8 synonymous, but, taken in their strict etymological sense, the latter signifies a “taking in re turn ;” the former, the passing the fronti...
Marquises, earls
viscounts, and barons. These had anciently duties annexed to their respective honors. They are created either by writ, 4 e, by royal summons to attend the house of peers, or by letters patent, 4 é., by royal grant of an...
MARRIAGE
to intermarry, or one of them, or by a parent or relation on their behalf, by which the title to certain property is settled, t. e., fixed or limited to a prescribed course of succession; the object being, usually, to pr...
Marsh
(Ky.) 543; Boston pavermicnt Co. v. (Ky.) 156, 22 Am. Dec. 72. (Ky.) 501; Chicago Guaranty Fund (J.J.). J. J. Marshall’s Kentucky Reports. l
Marsh, 18 Mont
152, 44 Pac. 528, 56 Am.
Marsh, 19 II
382. —Judgment-book. <A _ book required to “be kept bv the clerk. among the records of the
Marsh. Beng
(or Cals.). Marshall’s Re ports, Bengal
Marsh. Ins
559; 3 Kent, Comm. 318-335, aud notes; The St. Johns (D. C.) 101 Fed. 798; Boon v. Insurance Co., 40 b. 1, ce. 9, § 5; Park, Ins. 388; 185.—OCourse of trade. What is customarily or ordinarily done in the management...
Marsteller, 120 Ind
319, 22 N. E. 315; Steel v. Holladay, 20 Or. 70, 25 Pac. 69, 10 L. R.
Mart
(N. 8S. La.) 548, 558; Dig. 2, 4, 6; (ia.). Martin’s Louisiana Reports. (N.C.). Martin’s North Oarolina Reports. . Mart. Cond. La. Martin’s Condensed Louisiana Reports.
Mart. N.S
(La.) Martin’s Louisiana Reports, New Series. l :
MARTE SUO DEOCURRERE
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.
MARTIAL LAW
prison. Fhe St. 5 & 6 Vict. c 22, abolished this office, and substituted an officer called “keeper of the queen’s prison.” Ing out of the exigencies thereof, arbitrary in its character, and depending only on the w...
Martin v. Trail, 142 Mo
85, 43 S. W. 6535: oe v: Savage, 19 Or. 112, 23 Pac. 890, 26
Martin, 37 Ga
124, 92 Am. Dec. 56. But if the duty created by the obligation operates only on the moral sense, without being enforced by any positive law, it is ealled an “imperfect obligation,” and creates no right of action, nor...
Martling
55 N. J. Eq. 771, 39 Atl. 203; Carradine v. Carradine, 33 Miss. 729: Cornwell v. Wulff, 148 Mo. 542, 50 S. W. 439, 45 L. R.
Marvin vy. State, 19 Ind
181; Mickle v. Miles, 1 Grant, Cas. (Pa.) 828.
Maryland
e Mill, Pol. Ec. Mill’s Political Economy.
Maryland, 12 Wheat
448, 6 L. Ed. 678; Bowman y. Railroad, 125 U. S. 465, 8 Sup. Ct. 689, 31 L. Ed 700; Leisy v. Hardin, 135
Mas
(or Mason [U.8.]). Mason's Unit ed States Circuit Court Reports.
Mason, 1, Fed. Cas. No
4,247. See Act Cong. July 8, 1870.
Mass
151. c. 11, $1, art. 10; Pub. St. Mass. 1882, 242. All fours. Two cases or decisions which are alike in all material respects, and prey similar in all the circumstances afecting their determination. are said to be or t...
Mast. Master’s Reports, vols
25-28 Canada Supreme Court.
MASTER
MAST. To fatten with mast, (acorns, ete.) 1 Leon. 186. court of chancery, who holds a separate court ranking next to that of the lord chancellor, and has the keeping of the rolls and grants which pass the great seal, an...
Mat. Par
1250. (or Paris). Paris, Historia Minor.
MATELOTAGE
hire of a ship or boat.
MATER-FAMILIAS
Lat. In the civil law. The mother or mistress of a family. A chaste woman, married or single. Calvin.
MATERIA
Lat. Im the civil law. Materials; as distinguished from specics, or the form given by labor and skill. Dig. 41, 1, 7, 7-12; Pleta. lib. 3, « 2, § 14.
MATERNA MATERNIS
Lat. A maxim of the French law, signifying that property of a decedent acquired by him through his mother descends to the relations on the mother’s side. l
MATERTERA
Lat. In the civil law. A maternal aunt; a mother’s sister. Inst. 8, 6, 1; Bract. fol. 680. —Matertera magna. A
MATRICULA
influence or bearing on the decision of the case.
MATRICULATE
society, whereof a list was made. Hence those who are admitted to a college or university are said to be “matriculated.” Also a kind of almshouse, which had revenues appropriated to it, and was usually built near the...
MATRIMONIUM
Lat. In Roman law. A legal marriage, contracted in strict accordance with the forms of the older Roman law, #4. e., either with the farreum, the coemptio, or by usus. This was allowed only to Roman citizens and to those ...
MATRIMONY. Marriage, (g¢
v.,) in the sense of the relation or status, not of the ceremony.
MATRIX ECCLESIA
Lat. A mother ehurch. This term was anciently applied to a cathedral, in relation to the other churches in the same see, or to a parochial church, in relation to the chapels or minor churches attached to it or depending ...
Mats
(or Matson). vols. 22-24 Connecticut.
MAUGRE
hospital, an orphan asylum, etc., is often so called.
Maul. & Sel
(or Maule & 8.). Maule & Selwyn’s English King’s Bench Reports.