Means

1. Agency, instrumentality. 3. Property, resources; money. In patent law, see Process, 2. Attempt by otlier means. In a statute punishing setting fire to property, contemplates physical means.' ^ F. maire: L. maiorem: majorem, greater. "Mayor" is the Spanish spelling,

— Skeat. In 1189, Eich. I substituted a mayor for the two bailiffs of London. See 25 Wend. 50; 4 Bl. Com. 413. = Waldo V. Wallace, 12 Ind. 577 (1859). ' Church V. Meeker, 34 Conn. 429 (1867). < Head v. Ampskeag Manuf. Co., 113 U. S. 22 (1886), cases; Wurts v. Hoagland, 314 id. 610 (1885), cases. See Neponset Meadow Co. v. Tileston, 133 Mass. 189 (1882). In Wright v. Eosebeny, 121 IT. S. 488 (1887), the Supreme Court reviewed the legislation of Congress respecting swamp lands, the departmental construction of that legislation, and the decisions of the court and of the highest courts of many of the States concerning such legislation. ' From the river Meander, in Asia Minor,— 23 N. Y. 500, infra. «St. Paul, &c. E. Co. V. Schurmeir, 7 Wall. 272 (1868). See also Jones v. Pettibone, 3 Wis. 807 (1863); The Seneca Nation v. Knight, 23 N. T. 500 (1861); Bristol V. Carroll County, 95 111. 85 (1880). ' Mc Dade v. People, 29 Mich. 63 (1874). Means necessary to an end. Any means calculated to produce the end,^ See Necessary. Means of satisfaction in hand. Referring to a creditor, property or money of the debtor in the creditor's possession, which he may lawfully appropriate to the debt." See Available. Means of support. May embrace all the resources from which the necessaries and comforts of life are or may be supplied, such as lands, goods, salaries, wages, or other sources of income.^