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  • MEN OF STRAW
    Men who used in former days to ply about courts of law, so called from their manner of making known their occupation, (*. c, by a straw in one of their shoes,) recognized by the name of "straw-shoes." An advocate or lawyer who wanted a convenient witness knew by these More...
  • MENACE
    A threat; the declaration or show of a disposition or determination to inflict an evil or Injury upon another. Gumming v. State, 09 Ga. 662, 27 S. E. 177; Morrill v. Nightingale, 93 Cal. 452, 28 Pac. 1068, 27 Am. St Rep. 207.
  • MENETUM
    In old Scotch law. A stock-horn; a horn made of wood, "with circles and girds of the same." Skene.
  • MENIAL
    A servant of the lowest order; more strictly, a domestic servant living under his master's roof. Boniface v. Scott, 3 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 354.
  • MENS
    Lat. Mind; intention; meaning; understanding; will. -Mens legis. The mind of the law; that is, the purpose, spirit, or intention of a law or the law generally.-Mens legislator!*. The intention of the law-maker.-Mens rea. A guilty mind; a guilty or wrongful purpose; a criminal intent Mens testatoris in testamentis spec-tan More...
  • MENSA
    Lat. Patrimony or goods and necessary things for livelihood. Jacob. A table; the table of a money-changer. Dig. 2, 14, 47. -Mensa et thoro. From bed and board. See DIVORCE.
  • MENSALIA
    Parsonages or spiritual livings united to the tables of religious houses, and called "mensal benefices" amongst the canonists. Cowell.
  • MENSIS
    Lat. In the civil and old English law. A month. Mensis vet it us, the prohibited month; fence-month, (q. v.)
  • MENSOR
    In the eivil law. A measurer of land; a surveyor. Dis. 11, 6; Id. 50, 6, 6; Cod. 12, 28.
  • MENSULARIUS
    In the civil law. A money-changer or dealer in money. Dig. 2, 14, 47, 1.
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