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  • MEGBOTE
    In Saxon law. A recompense for the murder of a relation.
  • MEIGNE, OR MAISNADER
    In old English law. A family.
  • MEINDRE AGE
    L. Fr. Minority; lesser age. Kelham.
  • MEINY, MEINE, OR MEINIE
    In old English law. A household; staff or suite of attendants; a retinue; particularly, the royal household.
  • MEJORADO
    In Spanish law. Preferred; advanced. White, New Recop. 1. 3" tit. 10, c. 1, f 4.
  • MELANCHOLIA
    In medical jurisprudence. A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideaa Webster. See INSANITY.
  • MELDFEOH
    In Saxon law. The recompense due and given to him who made discovery of any breach of penal laws committed by another person, called the "promoter's [i. c?., informer's] fee." Wharton.
  • MELIOR
    Lat. Better; the better. Melior res, the better (best) thing or chattel. Bract fol. 60. Melior est conditio defendentis. The condition of the party in possession is the better one, ?. e., where the right of the parties is equal. Broom, Max. 715, 719. Melior est conditio possidentis, et rei More...
  • MELIORATIONS
    In Scotch law. Improvements of an estate, other than mere repairs; betterments. 1 Bell, Comm. 73. Occasionally used in English and American law in the sense of valuable and lasting improvements or betterments. See Green v. Biddle, 8 Wheat 84, 5 L. Ed. 547. Mellorem conditionem eoelesia) gnat facere potest More...
  • MELIUS INQUIRENDUM
    To be better inquired into. In old English law. The na^ine of a writ commanding a further inquiry respecting a matter; as, after an imperfect inquisition in proceedings in outlawry, to have a new inquest as to the value of lands.
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