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(or inners 5. Macfarlane’s Keports, Jury Courts, Scotland.
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Mach. Co
v. Gray, 114 Ind. 340. 16 N. E. 787. —Fee damages. Damages sustained by and awarded to an abutting owner of real property occasioned by the construction and operation of an elevated railroad in a city street, are so v. Hunes (C. C.) 70 Fed. 859; S...
Mackeld
m. Law, § 737. The estate of a person deceased, where the owner left no heirs or legatee to take it, called also “caduca;" an escheated estate. Cod. 10, 10, 1; 4 Kent, Comm. . The term has also been used in English law to signify an estate in abey...
MACULARE
loans, on unconscionable terms, to family heirs who would mortgage their future expectations from the paternal estate. The law is said to have derived its name from that of a notorious usurer. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, $482; Inst. 4, 7,1; Dig. 14, 6.
MAGISTRALIA BREVIA
grants dispensations; as to marry, to eat flesh on days prohibited, and the like. Bac. Abr. Ecclesiastical Courts,” A, 5.—Magister ho-~ norum vendendorum. In Roman law, a person appointed by judicial authority to inventory, collect, and sell ‘t...
MAIN
L. Fr. A hand. More commonly written “meyn.” —Main-a-main. Immediately. Kelham. MAIN. Principal, chief, most important in size, extent, or utility. —Main ehannel. The main channel of a river is that bed over which the principal volume of wate...
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, horses, and cattle. All other thin...
MANOR | 756
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 roads and commons of pasture for ...
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 inquisitorial and executive powers i...
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.
MARITAGIO AMISSO PER DEFALT
AM. An obsolete writ for the tenant in frank-marriage to recover lands, etc. of which he was deforced.
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 writes the name of the marksman, l...
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 the’ day only, the other si...
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.
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 frontiers (marches) in order to such...
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 provide for the wife and childre...
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
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, and the records of the chancery....
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
McLeod
25 Wend. (N. Y.) 483, 37 Am. Dec. 328.—Solemn war. A war made in form by ublic declaration: a war solemniv declared y one state against another.—War-Office. In England. <A department of state from which the sovereign issues orders to his forces. ...
McMul
(S. C.) 357.—Possessio bona fide. Possession in good faith. Possessio mala fide, ssession in bad faith. A possessor bona fide ES one who believes that no other person has a better right to the possession than himself. A ossessor mala fide is one wh...
MEDIA ET INFIRM
building, and -is intended to secure for them a priority of payment.
MELIOR
Lat. Better; Melior res, the better (best) thing or chattel.
MENT
Extincto subjecto, tollitur adjunoc- TENEMENTAL LAND. [and distributed by a lord among his tenants, as opposed to the demesnes which were occupied by himself and his servants. 2 Bl. Comm. 90.
MERCATORUM ALIENIGENORUM
In old English law. A writ against the goods of aliens found within this kingdom, in recompense of goods taken from a denizen in a foreign country, after denial of restitution.
MERE MOTION
MERSCUM. A lake; also a marsh or fen-land.
Metcalf’s Reports, vol
3 Rhode Island. Metco. Ky. Metcalfe’s Kentucky Reports. Meth. Ch. Ca. Report of Methodist Church ‘Case. Mich. Michigan ;—Michigan ner —_— Michaelmas.
METRE
land; a landmark; a material ebject, as a tree or a ‘pillar, marking the position or beginning of a boundary line.