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  • MAGNUS ROTULUS STATUTORUM
    The great statute roll. The flrst of the English statute roils, beginning with Magna Charta, and ending with Edward III. Hale, Com. Law, 16, 17.
  • MAHA-GEN
    In Hindu law. A banker or any great shop-keeper.
  • MAHAL
    In Hindu law. Any land or public fund producing a revenue to the government of Hindostan. "Mahalaat" is the plural.
  • MAHLBRIEF
    In maritime law. The German name for the contract for the building of a vessel. This contract contains a specification of the kind of vessel intended, her dimensions, the time within which she Is to be completed, the price and times of payment, etc. Jac. Sea Laws, 2-8.
  • MAIDEN
    In Scotch law. An instrument formerly used in beheading criminals. It resembled the French guillotine, of which It is said to have been the prototype. Wharton.
  • MAIDEN ASSIZE
    In English law. Originally an assize at which no person was condemned to die. Now it Is a session of a criminal court at which there are no prisoners to be tried.
  • MAIDEN RENTS
    A fine paid by the tenants of some manors to the lord for a license to marry a daughter. Cowell. Or, perhaps, for the lord's omitting the custom of marcheta, (q. v.)
  • MAIGNAGIUM
    A brasier's shop, or, perhaps, a house. Cowell.
  • MAIHEM
    See MAYHEM; MAIM.
  • MAIHEMATUS
    Maimed or wounded.
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