A Dictionary of Law

A public time and appointed place of buying and selling; also purchase place on one aide only, or during one part of the day only, the other sides being occupied by temples, theate

Such things as may be sold in the market; those for which a buyer may be found.

A “marketable title” to land is such a title as a courtof equity, when asked to decree specific performance of the contract of sale, will compel the vendee to accept as suflicient.

In English law. An open and public market. Tha marketplace or spot of ground set apart by custom for the sale of particular goods is, in the country, the only market overt; but in

Those towns which ure entitled to hold markets. 1 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.) 180. MARKET VALUE signifies a price established by public saies, or sales in the way of ordizary business.

(properly market geld.) In old records. The tollofa market. Cowell,

In practice and conveyancing. One who makes his mark; a person who cannot write, and only makes his mark in executing instruments. Arch. N, Pr. 13; 2 Chit. 92.

STATUTE OF. An English statute enacted in 1267 (52 Hen. It related to land tenures, and to procedure, and to unlawful and excessive distresses.

LET-

or MARQUESS. In English law. One of the second order of nobility; next in order to a duke.

The seigniory of a marquis.

A writ formerly available toa wife after a divorce, for the recovery of the goods given with her in marriage. Moz ley & Whitley.

Marriage, as distin. guished from the agreement to marry and from the act of becoming married, is the civil status of one man and one woman united in law for life, for the discharg

Articles of agreement between parties contemplating marriage, intended as preliminary toa formal marriage settlement, to be drawn after marriage. Ath. Mar. Sett. 92.

Theform, raligioue or civil, for the solemnization of a marriage.

Tbe consideration furnished by an intended marriage of two persons. It is the highest consideravion. Known to the Jaw.

Dowry;a ura of money or other property which is given to cr settled on awoman on her mar- Tiage.

Betrothal; engagement to intermarry with another.

A written agreement in the nature of a conveyance, called a “settlement,” which is made in contemplation of a proposed marriage and in consideration thereof, either by the parties

A woman who has a husband living and not divorced; a Jeme covert.

A high court, formerly held in England by the steward and marshal of the king’s household, having jurisdiction of all actions against the king’s peace within the bounds of the hous

Inold Englishlaw. The title borne by several oflicers of state and of the law, of whom the most important were the following: (1) The earl-marshal, who presided in the court of chi

In equity. The arranging or ranking of assets in the dua order of administration. Such an arrangement of the different funds under administration as shall enable all the parties ha

The ranking or ordering of several estates or parcels of land, for the satisfaction of a judgment or mortgage to which they are all liable, though successively conveyed away by the

An equitable practice, which consists in so ranking or arranging classes of creditors, with respect to the assets of the common debtor, as to provide for satisfaction of the greate

COURT OF. The court of the Marshalsea had jurisdiction in actions of debt or torts, the cause of which arose within the verge of the royal court. It was abolished by St. 12 & 18 Vi

In English law. A prison belonging to the King’s bench. It has now been consolidated with others, under the name of the “Queen’s Prison.”

A place of public traflic or sale,

Lat. To run by its own force. A term applied in the civil law to a suif when it ran its course to the end without any impediment. Calvin.

A system of law, obtaining only in time of actual war and srowing out of the exigencies thereof, arbitrary in its character, and depending only on the district of hostile territory

The feast of St. Martin of Tours, on the llth of November; some. times corrupted into “Martiluaas” or “Martlemas.” It is the third of the four cross quarter-days of the year. Whart

In old Scotch law. <A maire: an officer or executor of summons. Otherwise called “preco regis.” Skene.

A messuage.

Of the male sex,

In the civil law. A mass; an unwrought substance, such as gold or silver, before it is wrought into cups or other ar.

To fatten with mast, (acorns, tic.) 1 Leon. 186.

One having authority; one who rules, directs, Instructs, or superintends; a head or chief; an instructor; an employer. Applied to several judicial officers. See tnjra.

The relation of master and servant exists where one person, for pay or other valuable consideration, enters into the service of another and devotes to him his personal labor for an

The title of officers of the English superior courts of common law appointed to record the proceedings of the court to which they belong; to superintend the issue of writs and the

An officer of a court of chancery who acts as an assistant tothe judge or chancellor. His office isto inquire into such matters as may be referred to him by the court, examine caus

In English law. The masters in lunacy are judicial officera appointed by the lord chancellor for the purpose of conducting inquiries into the state of mind of persons alleged to be

In maritime law. The commander of a merchant vessel, who has the chief charge of her government and navigation and the command of the crew, confidential agent of the owner. He is c

The gueen’s coroner and attorney in the criminal department of the court of queen's bench, who prosecutes at the relation of some private person or common informer, the crown being

in English law. Am oflicer under the archbishop, who grants licensea and dispensations, ete.

In English law. The third great officer of the royal household, being next to the lord steward and lord chamberlain. He has the privilege of making use of any horses, footmen, or p

In English law. An officer who receives bullion for coinage, and pays for it, and superintends everything belonging to the mint. He is usually called the “warden of the mint.” It i

In English law. A great officer, to whose care all the royal ordnance and artillery were committed.

In English law. An assistant judge of the 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 whi

The ehief ecclesiastical functionary of the Temple Church, ¢.

The formal report or statement made by a master in chaneery of his decision on any question referred to him, or of any facts or action he has been directed to ascertain or take.

In old English law. The practice of selling the goods of dead seamen atthe mast. Held void. 7 Mod. 141.

In old records. A decayed house; a wall; the ruins of a building; a certain quantity of land, about four oxgangs,

A person who lodges or dwells ithe same house with another, occupying arent rvoms, but using the same door for sing in and out of the house. Webster;

The officer second in command on a merchant vessel.

In French law. The hire of a ship or boat.

Lat. In the civil law. The mother or mistress of a family. A chaste woman, married oe. or; single, Calvin.:

Lat. In the civil law. Matcrials; as distinguished from speeées, or the form given by labor and skill. Dig. 41, er tact 1): ey P vette; Urea Conds 2 @ ble 1: ee ltd oo eee eo BEES

The property orcharacter of being material, See MATERIAL.

A person who has furnished materials used in the construction or repair of a building, structure, or vessel.

The-substance-or matter of which: anything is made; matter furnished for the erection oe of a house, ship, ‘ or other structure; matter used orintended to be used

That which belongs to, or comes from, the mother; as maternal quthority, maternal relation, maternal estate, maternal line,

That which comes from the mother of the party, and other ascendants of tle maternal stock. Dom. Liv. Prél. t. 3,8. 2, no. 12.

The character, relation, state, or condition of a mother.

Lat. In the civil law. A maternal aunt; a mother’ssister. Inst. 3, 6,1; Bratt, fol. 68b.

In the clvil law. A great aunt; a grandmother's sister, (avie sorer.) Dig. 38, 10, 10, 15.

In old Scotch law. An officer to whom process was directed. Otherwise called “miair of fie,” (fee,) and classed with the “serjand.” Skene.

Forsworn, by making false oath with hard (main) on book. Used in the north of England. Lrownl. 4; Hob. 125.

In English ecclesiastical law. Causes of action or injuries respecting the rights of marringe. One of the three divisions of causes or injuries cognizalle by the ecclesiastical cou

Lat. In Roman law. A leval marriage, contracted in strict aceordance with the forms of the older Roman law, i. é, either with the farreum, the co-emptio, or by uwsus, This was allo

Marriage, (g.0.,) inthe sense of the relation or status, not of the ceremony.

Inthe civillaw. The protocol or first draft of a legal instrument, from which ali copies must be taken. See (Tex.) 16S. W. Rep. 63.

Lat. A mother church, This term was anciently applied to a cathedral, in relation to the other churches in the sume see, or to a parochial ehurch, in Telation to the chapels or min

A married woman; an elderly woman. The female superintendent of an establishment or institution, such as a hospital, an orphan asylum, etc., is often so called.

JURY OF. Such a jury is impateled to try if a woman condemned to death be with child.

Facts; substance as distinguished from form; the merits of a case,

Such matter as may be proved or established by a deed or spectalty. Matter of fact, in contradistinetion to matter of law. Co, Litt. 320; Steph. Pl, 197.

That upon which the plaintiff proceeds in his action, and whieh the defendant controverts by his pleadings, not including facts offered in evidence to establish the matters in issu

Matter of fact that is not in writing; thus distinguished from matter in deed and matter of record; matter that must be proved by parol evidence.

Anything done or tuken in the course of rontine or usual procedure, which is permissible and valid without being specially applied for and allowed.

That which is to be ascertained by the senses, or by the testimony of witnesses describing what they have perceived. Distinguished from matter of law.

Whatever belongs or relates merely to the form of a pleading or other instrument, or to its language, arrangement, or technicality, without affect- ~ ing its substance, (¢.e., its

Whatever is to be ascertained or decided by the application of statutory rules or the principles and determinations of the law, as distinguished frora the investigation of particul

Any judicial matter or proceeding entered on the records of a court, and to be proved by the production of such record. It differs from matter in deed, which consists of facts whic

That MATTERS OF SUBSISTENCE FOR

In mereantile law, The time when a bill of exchange or promissory note becomes due. Story, Bills, § 329,

Fr. In spite of; against the willof. Litt. § 672.

The day preceding Good Friday, on which princes gave alms. ‘

Chains for the hands; shackles.

A clerk of the kitchen, or caterer, especially in colleges. Coweil.

In Roman law. Tha momentary condition in which a /i/ius, ete., might be when in course of emancipation from the poiestas, and before that emancipation was absolutely complete. The

In old English law. <A habitation or dwelling, generally with land attached. Spelman. A residence or dwelling-house for the parish priest; a parsonage or vicarage house. Cowell. St

or MANSUM. A mansion or - house. Spelman,

An estublished principle or proposition. A principle of law universally admitted, as being a correct statement of the law, or as agreeable to natural reason, Coke defines a maxim t

John Irwing. A pocket dictionary of the law of bills of exchange, prowissury notes, bank notes, checks, ete. 1 vol. 12mo. Philadelphia, 1808.

In criminal law. The act of unlawfully and violently depriving another fend himself or annoy his adversary. 4 Bi. Comm. 205. Every person who unlawfully and maliciously deprives a

Maimed. This isa term of art which cannot ve supplied in pleading by any other word, aa mutilavit, truncavit, ete. 3 Thom. Co. Litt. 548; 7 Mass. 247.

Fr. A work of the hand; a thing produced by manual labor. Yearb, M. 4 Edw. UTI. 88.

The executive head of a municipal corporation; the governor or chief mavistrate of a city.

The oftice or dignity of a mayor.

In Spanish law. The right to the enjoyment of certain aggregate property, left with the condition thereon imposed that they are to pass in their integrity, perpetually, successivel