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  • MEDLEY
    An affray; a sudden or casual fighting; a hand to hand battle; a me'le'e. See CHANCE-MEDLEY; CHAUD-MEDLEY.
  • MEDSCEAT
    In old English law. A bribe; hush money.
  • MEDSYPP
    A harvest supper or entertainment given to laborers at harvest-home. Cowell.
  • MEETING
    A coming together of persons ; an assembly. Particularly, in law, an assembling of a number of persons for the purpose of discussing and acting upon some matter or matters in which they have a common interest -Called meeting;. In the law of corporations, a meeting not held at a More...
  • MEGBOTE
    In Saxon law. A recompense for the murder of a relation.
  • MEIGNE, OR MAISNADER
    In old English law. A family.
  • MEINDRE AGE
    L. Fr. Minority; lesser age. Kelham.
  • MEINY, MEINE, OR MEINIE
    In old English law. A household; staff or suite of attendants; a retinue; particularly, the royal household.
  • MEJORADO
    In Spanish law. Preferred; advanced. White, New Recop. 1. 3" tit. 10, c. 1, f 4.
  • MELANCHOLIA
    In medical jurisprudence. A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideaa Webster. See INSANITY.
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