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  • 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 A Whitley. -Marches, oourt of. An abolished tribunal in 'Wales, where More...
  • MARCHETA
    In old Scotch law, A custom for the lord of a fee to lie the first night with the bride of his tenant Abolished by Malcolm III. Spelman; 2 Bl. Comm. 83. A fine paid by the tenant for the remission of such right, originally a mark or half a More...
  • MARCHIONESS
    A dignity in a woman answerable to that of marquis in a man, conferred either by creation or by marriage with a marquis. Wharton.
  • MARE
    Lat. The sea. -Mare olausum. The sea closed: that is, aot open or free. The title of Selden's great work, intended as an answer to the Mare Liberum of Grotiu8; in which he undertakes to rove the sea to be capable of private dominion. Kent Comm. 27.-Mare liberum. The sea More...
  • MARESCALLUS
    In old English law. A marshal; a master of the stables; an officer of the exchequer; a military officer of high rank, having powers and duties similar to those of a constable. Du Cange. See MARSHAL.
  • MARESCHAL
    L. Fr. Marshal; a high officer of the royal household. Britt fol. lb.
  • MARETTUM
    Marshy ground overflowed by the sea or great rivers. Co. Litt 5.
  • MARGIN
    1. The edge or border; the edge of a body of water where it meets the land. As applied to a boundary line of land, the "margin" of a river, creek, or other water-course means the center of the stream. Ex parte Jennings, 6 Cow. (N. Y.) 527, 16 Am. More...
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