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  • MANWORTH
    In old English law. The price or value of a man's life or head. Co-well.
  • MANY
    This term denotes a multitude, not merely a number greater than that denoted by the word "few.". Louisville A N. R. Co. v. Hall, 87 Ala. 708, 6 South. 277, 4 L. R. A. 710, 13 Am. St Rep. 84. But compare Hilton Bridge Const Co. v. Foster, 26 Misc. More...
  • 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 portrays, narrowed In compass so as to facilitate an understanding of the original." More...
  • MARA
    In old records. A mere or moor; a lake, pool, or pond; a bog or marsh that cannot be drained. Cowell; Blount; Spelman.
  • 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 More...
  • MARC-BANCO
    The name of a piece of money formerly coined at Hamburg. Ita value was thirty-five cents.
  • MARCA
    A mark; a coin of the value of 13s. 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-atone.
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