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  • MERSCUM
    A lake; also a marsh or fen-land.
  • MERTLAGE
    A church calendar or rubric. Cowell.
  • MERTON, STATUTE OF
    An old English statute, relating to dower, legitimacy, wardships, procedure, inclosure of common, and usury. It was passed in 1235, (20 Hen. III.,) and was named from Merton, in Surrey, where parliament sat that year. See Barring. St 41, 46.
  • MERUM
    In old English law. Mere; naked or abstract. Merum jus, mere right. Bract fol. 31.
  • MERX
    Lat. Merchandise; movablear ticles that are bought and sold; articles of trade. Men est quiequid vendi potest. Merchandise is whatever can be sold. Com. 355 ; 3 Wood. Lect 263.
  • MESCREAUNTES
    L. Fr. Apostates; unbelievers.
  • MESCROYANT
    A term used in the ancient books to designate an infidel or unbeliever.
  • MESE
    A. house and its appurtenance. Cowell.
  • MESNE
    Intermediate; intervening; the middle between two extremes, especially of rank or time. An intermediate lor,d; a lord who. stood between a tenant and the chief lord; a lord who was also a tenant "Lord, mesne, and tenant; the tenant hojdeth by four pence, and the mesne by twelve pence." Co. More...
  • MESNALTY, OR MESNALITY
    A manor held under a superior lord. The estate of a mesne.
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