LUXURY
LUXURY. Excess and extravagance which was formerly an offense against the public economy, but is not now punishable. Wharton.
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LYTA
ed intent which is necessary to characterize murder in the first degree.
LZSA MAJESTAS
Lat. Leze-majesty, or injured majesty; bigh treason. It is a phrase taken from the civil law, and anciently meant any offense against the king's person or dignity.
MAJESTAS
Lat. In Roman law. The majesty, sovereign. authority, or supreme prerogative of the state.or prince. Also a. shorter form of the expression “crimen majeatatis,” or “crimen lasaA majestatis,” an offense against sovereignty, or against the safe...
MALEFICIA NON DEBENT
Mackeld. Rom. Law, Wrongs in themselves; acts morall offenses aealnst conscience. 1 BI. mm. 57,
MALICE
son defamed. McDonald v. Brown, 2 R. f. 546, 51 Atl. 218, 58 L. R. A. 768, 91 Am.
MALO ANIMO
Lat. With an evil mind; with a bad purpose or wrongful intention; with malice. La Ms
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 sustain it, the pro cess and p...
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 civil law, siguify-
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 will of the commander of an arm...
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 to run on “all fours."—All ...
Max
108.—Act of grace. In Scotch law. A term applied to the act of 1696, c. 832, by which it was provided that where a person imprisoned for a civil debt is so poor that he cannot .aliment [maintain] himself. and will make oath to that effect, it shall...
McCrary, 22 Ala
72; Ex parte Dusenberry, 97 Mo. 504,11 S. W. 217. Capital punishment is the punishment of death.
Me
63; Pulcifer’ vy. Page, 82 Me. 404, 54 Am 321; Lemons y. Wells, 78 Ky. 117; Mayrant v. Richardson, 1 Nott & McC. 347, 9 Am. 503; McCourt v. People, 64 N. Y. 585. 467. It has been said from the bench that 254, 34 Atl. 30.—Monocy counts. A spec...
Mens Rea
menz RAY-uh
A guilty mind; a guilty or wrongful purpose; a criminal intent. The physical act alone (actus reus) does not make a crime unless accompanied by a guilty mind.
METALLUM
Lat. In Romanlaw. Metal; a mine. Labor in mines, as a punishment for crime. Dig. 40,5, 24, 5; Calvin.
Mich
192, 70 N. W. 406, U7 Am. St. Rep. 392; Civ. Code La. 1900. art. 20980. 493, 19 N. W. 161: State v. White. 18 424, 69 Am. Dec. 821; U. 8. v. Curley (C. C.) 122 Fed. 740; Weber v. Mick, 182 239, 80 N. W. 1081; Compton v. Me- 621, 50 N. W. 737: Car...
MISCARRIAGE
weeks after conception. Between that time, and before the expiration of the sixth month, when the child may possibly live, it is termed “abortion.” When the delivery takes place soon after the sixth month, it is denominated “premature labor.”...
MISREPRESENTATION
‘sential to the support or defense of an action, is so called; as in the case of a plaintiff not merely stating his title in a defective manner, but setting forth a title which is essentially defective in itself; or if, to an action of debt, the de...
MISSIO
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, § 521. Missto judicum in consilium, a sending out of the judices (or jury) to make up their sentence.
Mla
546, 3 South. 1 11 Am. St. Rep. 395. —Highway acts, or laws. The body or system of laws governing the laying out, repair, and use of highways.—Highway crossing. A lace where the track of a railroad crosses the ine of a highway.—Highway-rate. In...
Mo
574, 385. Anything which is -so. irrational, unnatural, or inconvenient that it cannot be supposed to have been within the intention of men of ordinary intelligence and discretion. Black, Interp. Laws, 104. 382, 9 S. W. 728; Sullivan v. State, 66 3...
MODERATE OASTIGAVIT
Lat. In pleading. He moderately chastised. The name of a plea in trespass which justifies an alleged battery on the ground that it consisted in a moderate chastisement of the plaintiff by the defendant, which, from their relations, the latter had a l...
MONITION
ed upon and liquidated by a jury, called “damages.” Roberts v. Nodwift, 8 Ind. 341; Mills v. Long, 58 Ala. 460.—Money had and received. In pleading. The technical designation of a form of declaration in assumpsit, wherein the plaintiff declares...
More particularly, to deliver
in a formal manner the defendant’s answer to the plaintiff's declaration, or to the indictment, as the: case may be. 7 . To appear as a pleader or advocate in a cause; to argue a cause in a court of justice. But this meaning of the word is not tech...
MORTUUM VADIUM
MORTGAGOR. He that gives a mortgage. MORTH. Sax. Murder, answering ex-
Moyer v. Cook, 12 Wis
336. —Salwage service. See SALVAGE.—Secular service. Worldly employment or service, as contrasted with spiritual or ecclesiastical.—Service by publication. Service of a summons or other process upon an absent or non-resident defendant, by pr pa...
MULTA NON VETAT LEX
MULOT. A penalty or punishment imposed on a person guilty of some offense, tort, or misdemeanor, usually a pecuniary fine or condemnation in damages. See Cook v. Marshall County, 1/9 Iowa, 384, 93 N. W. 3872, 104 Am. St. Rep. 283.
MUSEUM
heart, regardless of human life, although without any premeditated design to effect the death of any particular individual; when done without any design to effect death, by any person engage in the commission of the crime of rape, burglary, arson, or...
N. BE
498. - 781, 15 L. R. A. 68; Ball v. Chadwick, 46 Ill. 31; Cutts v. Com., 2 Mass. 289; Jackson v. Parker, 9 Cow. (N. Y.) 81. An estate in lands, tenements, and hereditaments signifies such interest as the tenant has therein. 2 Bl. Comm. 108. The cond...