367; 2 Conn. 700; 11 Mass 500; 6 Greenl. 421; 3 Gill. & John. 377. See Case; Regular and irregular process.See, generally, Bull. N. P. 11; 1 Saund. 22...
Evil in itself.2. An offence malum in se is one which is naturally evil, as murder, theft, and the like; offences at common law are generally mala in ...
-will. In some ancient records this word signifies malicious practices, or crimes and misdemeaners....
French law. This word is applied to all punishable faults committed in the exercise of an office, such as corruptions, exactions, extortions and larce...
A human being. This definition includes not only the adult male sex of the human species, but women and children; examples: "of offences against man, ...
A person, appointed or elected to manage the affairs of another, but the term is more usually applied to those officers of a corporation who are autho...
In a barbarous age, when impunity could be purchased with money, the compensation which was paid for homicide was called manbote....
civil law. The act of transferring things called res mancipi. (q. v.) This is effected in the presence of not less than five witnesses, who must be Ro...
practice. The name of a writ, the principal word of which when the proceedings were in Latin, was mandamus, we command.2. It is a command issuing in t...
The principal in the contract of mandate is so called. Story, Ag.337....
One who is entrusted with and undertakes to perform a mandate. This word is used by the civilians in the same sense that we use mandatary. Poth. du Ma...
contracts. One who undertakes to perform a mandate. JonesBailm. 53; Story on Bailm. 38. Dr. Halifax calls him mandatee. Halif. Anal. Civ. Law, 70, 16,...
A judicial command or precept issued by a court or magi- trate, directing the proper officer to enforce a judgment, sentence or decree. Jones. Bailm. ...
Mandatum or commission, contracts. Sir William Jones defines a mandate to be a bailment of goods without reward, to be carried from place to place, or...
civil law. Mandates were the instructions which the emperor addressed to public functionaries, which were to serve as rules for their conduct. 2. Thes...
contracts. The person employing another to perform a mandate. Story on Bailm.138; 1 Brown, Civ. Law, 382; Halif. Anal. Civ. Law, 70....
English law. The return made by a sheriff, when he has committed the execution of a writ to a bailiff of a liberty, who has the right to execute the w...
The ceremony of doing homage by the vassal to his lord was de- nominated homagium or manhood, by the feudists. The formula used was devenio vester hom...
madness and the urgent necessity of a strict confinement. One lunatic, after long intervals of calmness, spoke at first with volubility, uttered frequ...
Insanity arising from the use of spirituous liquors. Vide Delirium Tremens....
antities and packages thereof shall be inserted in successive order in the manifest; aud all spirits, wines aud teas, constituting the whole or any pa...
evidence. That which is clear and requires no proof; that which is noto- rious. See Notoriety....
A solemn declaration, by the constituted authorities of a nation, which contains the reasons for its public acts towards another.2. On the declaration...
Persons of the male sex; but in a more general sense, it includes persons of both sexes; for example, the statute of 25 Hen. VIII., c. 6, makes it fel...
pleading. After traversing any allegation in pleading, it is usual to say "in manner and form as he has in his declaration in that behalf alleged," wh...
An ancient word which signifies goods taken in the hands of an ap- prehended thief....
estates. This word is derived from the French manoir, and signifies, a house, residence, or habitation. At present its meaning is more enlarged, and i...
This term is synonymous with house. (q. v.) 1 Chit. Pr. 167; 2 T. R. 502; 1 Tho. Co. Litt. 215, n. 35; 9 B. & C. 681; S. C. 17 E. C. L. R. 472, and th...
crim. law. The unlawful killing of another without malice either express or implied. 4 Bl. Com. 190 1 Hale, P. C. 466. The distinctions between mansla...
This word is sometimes used synonymously with kidnapping. The latter is more technical. 4 Bl. Com. 219....
With strong hand. (q. v.) This term is used in pleading in cases of forcible entry, and no other words are of equal import. Dane s Ab. ch. 132, a. 6; ...
This has the same meaning with mannopus. (q. v.)...
That which is employed or used by the hand, of which a present profit may be made. Things in the manual occupation of the owner cannot be distrained f...
practice. In the English law it is a writ which lies for a man taken on suspicion of felony and the like, who cannot be admitted to bail by the sherif...
The same as mainpernors. (q. v.)...
This word is used in the English and American patent laws. This term includes two classes of things; first, all machinery which is to be used and is n...
contracts. The agreement by which the owner or master of a slave sets him free and at liberty; the written instrument which contains this agreement is...
Dung. When collected in a heap, it is considered as personal property, but, when spread, it becomes a part of the land and acquires the character of r...
Anciently signified the person taking an oath as a compurgator. The use of this word probably came from the party laying his hand on the New Testament...
A writing; a writing which has never been printed.2. The act of congress securing to authors a copyright passed February 3, 1831, sect. 9, protects au...
One who, while employed in the army as a soldier, commits a larceny or robbery in the neighborhood of the camp, or while wandering away from the army....
The name of a coin. The marc-banco of Hamburg, as money of account, at the custom-house, is deemed and taken to be of the value of thirty-five cents. ...
Eng. law. This word signifies the limits, or confines, or borders. Bac. Law Tracts, tit. Jurisdiction of the. Marches, p. 246. It was applied to the l...
Marshy ground overflowed by the sea or great rivers. Co. Litt. 5....
An ancient word which signified a mariner or seaman; in England marinarius capitaneus, was the admiral or warden of the ports....
Whatever concerns the navigation of the sea, and forms the naval power of a nation is called its marine....
One which relates to business done or transacted upon the sea and in sea ports, and over which the courts of admiralty have jurisdiction concurrent wi...
contracts. A contract by which one party, for a stipulated premium, undertakes to indemnify the other, against all perils or sea risks, to which his s...
contracts. A compensation paid for the use and risk of money loaned on respondentia and bottomry; provided the money be loaned and put in risk, there ...
A measure equal to the twentieth part of a degree. Bouch. Inst. n. 1845, not. Vide Cannon Shot; Sea....
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