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  • MACHINERY
    A more comprehensive term than "machine;" including the appurtenances necessary to the working of a machine. Seavey v. Central Mut F. Ins. Co., Ill Mass. 540.
  • MACHOLUM
    In old English law. A barn or granary open at the top; a rick or stack of corn. Spelman.
  • MACTATOR
    L. Lat. In old European law. A murderer.
  • MACULARE
    In old European law. To wound. Spelman.
  • MAD POINT
    A term used to designate the idea or subject to which is confined the derangement of the mental faculties of one suffering from monomania. Owing's Case, 1 Bland (Md.) 388, 17 Am. Dec. 311. See INSANITY.
  • MADE KNOWN
    Where a writ of scire facias has been actually served upon a defendant, the proper return is that its contents have been "made known" to him.
  • MADMAN
    An insane person, particularly one suffering from mania in any of its forms. Said to be inapplicable to idiots (Com. v. Haskell, 2 Brewst. [Pa.] 497); but it is not a technical term either of medicine or the law, and is incapable of being applied with scientific precision. See INSANITY.
  • MADNESS
    See INSANITY.
  • MADRAS REGULATIONS
    Certain regulations prescribed for the government of the Madras presidency. Mozley & Whitley.
  • MAEC-BURGH
    In Saxon law. Kindred; family.
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