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  • MAYOR
    The executive head of a municipal corporation; the governor or chief magistrate of ^a city. Waldo v. Wallace, 12 Ind. 577; People v. New York, 25 Wend. (N. Y.) 36; Crovatt v. Mason, 101 Ga. 246, 28 S. E. 891. -Mayor's court. A court established in some cities, in which More...
  • MAYORAZGO
    In Spanish law. The right to the enjoyment of certain aggregate property, left with the condition thereon imposed that they are to pass in their integrity, perpetually, successively to the eldest son. Schm. Civil Law, 62.
  • MEAD
    Ground somewhat watery, not plowed, but covered with grass and flowers. Enc. Lond.
  • MEADOW
    A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay. Webster. A tract which lies above the shore, and is overflowed by spring and extraordinary xtides only, and yields grasses which are good for hay. Church v. Meeker, 34 Conn. 429. See State v. Crook, 132 More...
  • MEAL-RENT
    A rent formerly paid in meal.
  • MEAN, OR MESNE
    A middle between two extremes, whether applied to persons, things, or time.
  • MEANDER
    To meander means to follow a winding or flexuous course; and when it is said, in a description of land, "thence with the meander of the river," it must mean a meandered line,-a line which follows the sinuosities of the river, or, in other words, that the river is the More...
  • MEANS
    1. The Instrument or agency through which an end or purpose is accomplished. 2. Resources; available property; money or property, as an available instrumentality for effecting a purpose, furnishing a livelihood, paying a debt, or the like. -Means of support. This term embraces all those resources from which the necessaries More...
  • MEASE, OR MESE
    Norman-French for a house. Utt ?? 74, 251.
  • MEASON-DUE
    (Corruption of maxson de Dieu.) A house of God; a monastery; religious house or hospital. See 39 Eliz. c. 5.
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