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  • MAGNA AVERIA
    In old pleading. Great beasts, as horses, oxen, etc Cro. Jac 580.
  • MAGNA CENTUM
    The great hundred, or six score. Wharton.
  • MAGNA CHARTA
    The great charter. The name of a charter (or constitutional enactment) granted by King John of England to the barons, at Runnymede, on June 15, 1215, and afterwards, with some alterations, confirmed in parliament by Henry III. and Edward I. This charter is justly regarded as the foundation of English More...
  • MAGNA COMPONERE PARVIS
    To compare great things with small things.
  • MAGNA CULPA
    Great fault; gross negligence.
  • MAGNA NEGLIGENTIA
    In the civil law. Great or gross negligence. Magna negligentia culpa est; magna culpa dolus est. Gross negligence is fault; gross fault is fraud. Dig. 50, 16, 226.
  • MAGNA PRECARIA
    In old English law. A great or general reap-day. Cowell; Blount.
  • MAGNA SERJEANTIA
    In old English law. Grand serjeanty. Fleta, lib. 2, c 4, 5 1.
  • MAGNUM CAPE
    In old practice. Great or grand cape. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 418. See GRAND CAPS.
  • MAGNUM CONCILIUM
    In old English law. The great council; the general council of the realm; afterwards called "parliament" 1 Bl. Comm. 148; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 62; Spelman. . The king's great council of barons and prelates. Spelman; Crabb, Com. Law, 228.
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