Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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MARCHETA

MANUMITTETIE, ETC.

an understanding of the original." 8 Minn. 103. (Gil. 55.) MARA. In old records. A mere or moor; a lake, pool, or pond; a bog or marsh that cannot be drained. Cowell; Blount; Spel man. MARAUDER. "A marauder is defined in the law to be ' one who, while employed in the army as a soldier, commits larceny or robbery in the neighborhood of the camp, or while wandering away from the army.' But in the modern and metaphorical sense of the word, as now sometimes used in common speech, it seems to be applied to a class of persons who are not a part of any regular army, and are not answerable to any military discipline, but who are mere lawless banditti, engaged in plundering, robbery, murder, and all conceivable crimes." 37 Mo. 328. MARC-BANCO. The name of a piece of money coined at Hamburg. Its value is thirty-five cents. MARCA. A mark; a coin of the value of 133. 4d. Spelman. MARCATUS. The rent of a mark by the year anciently reserved in leases, etc MARCH. In Scotch law. A boundary line or border. Bell. The word is also used in composition; as march-dike, march-stone. MARCHANDISES AVARIEES. In French mercantile law. Damaged goods. MARCHERS. In old English law. Noblemen who lived on the marshes of Wales or Scotland, and who, according to Camden, had their private laws, as if they had been petty kings; which were abolished by the statute 27 Hen. VIII. c. 26. Called also "lords marchers." Cowell. MARCHES. An old English term for boundaries or frontiers, particularly the boundaries and limits between England and Wales, or between England and Scotland, or the borders of the dominions of the crown, or the boundaries of properties in Scotland. Mozley & Whitley. MARCHES, COURT OF. An abolished tribunal in Wales, where pleas of debt or damages, not above the value of £50, were tried and determined. Cro. Car. 384. MARCHETA. In old Scotch law. A custom for the lord of a fee to lie the first night with the bride of his tenant. Abol ished by Malcolm III. Spelman; 2 Bl. Comm. 83.

dom. In a wider sense, releasing or deliv ering one person from the power or control of another. Manumittere idem est quod extra manum vel potestatem ponere. Co. Litt. 137. To manumit is the same as to place be yond hand and power. MANUNG, or MONUNG. In old En glish law. The district within the jurisdic tion of a reeve, apparently so called from his power to exercise therein one of his chief functions, viz., to exact (amanian) all fines. MANUPES. A foot of full' and legal measure. MANURABLE. In old English law. Capable of being had or held in hand; capa ble of manual occupation; capable of being cultivated; capable of being touched; tangi ble; corporeal. Hale, Anal. § 24. MANURE. In old English law. To oc cupy; to use or cultivate; to have in man ual occupation; to bestow manual labor up on. Cowell. MANUS. Lat A hand. In the civil law, this word signified pow er, control, authority, the right of physical coercion, and was often used as synonymous with "potestas." In old English law, it signified an oath or the person taking an oath; a compurgator. MANUS MORTUA. Adeadhand? mortmain. Spelman. MANUSCRIPT. A writing; a paper written with the hand; a writing that has not been printed. MANUTENENTIA. The old writ of maintenance Beg. Orig. 182. M A N W O R T H . In old English law. The price or value of a man's life or head. Cowell. MANY. This term denotes a multitude, not merely a number greater than that de noted by the word "few." (Ala.) 6 South. Sep. 282. MANZIE. In old Scotch law. Mayhem; mutilation of the body of a person. Skene. MAP. A representation of the earth's surface, or of some portion of it, showing the relative position of the parts represented, usually on a flat surface. Webster. "A map Is but a transcript of the region which it por trays, narrowed in compass so as to facilitate

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