Menace
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A threat; a declaration of an intention to cause evil to happen to another. When menaces to do an injury to another have been made, the party making inconvenience or loss, the injured party has a civil action against the wrongdoer.
Comyn. Dig. "Battery" (D); Viner, Abr.; Bac. Abr. "Assault;" Co. Litt. 161a, 162b, 253b; 2 Lutw, 1428.
MENDACIUM (Lat.) In old English law. Falsehood; a falsehood or lie; a false statement made with intent to deceive. Fleta, lib.
5, c. 22, § 6.