Major General
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In military law. An officer next in rank above a brigadier general, and next below a lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or an army corps. Major hereditas venit unicuique nostrum a jure et legibus quam a parentibus.
2Inst.56.
A greater inheritance comes to every one of ns trom right and the laws " than from parents. Major numerus in se continet minorem.
Dract.fol. 16.
The greater number contains in itself the less.