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  • MAGNA PRECARIA
    In old English law. A great or general reap-day. Cowell; Blount.
  • MAGNA SERJEANTIA
    In old English law. Grand serjeanty. Fleta, lib. 2, c 4, 5 1.
  • MAGNUM CAPE
    In old practice. Great or grand cape. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 418. See GRAND CAPS.
  • MAGNUM CONCILIUM
    In old English law. The great council; the general council of the realm; afterwards called "parliament" 1 Bl. Comm. 148; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 62; Spelman. . The king's great council of barons and prelates. Spelman; Crabb, Com. Law, 228.
  • MAGNUS ROTULUS STATUTORUM
    The great statute roll. The flrst of the English statute roils, beginning with Magna Charta, and ending with Edward III. Hale, Com. Law, 16, 17.
  • MAHA-GEN
    In Hindu law. A banker or any great shop-keeper.
  • MAHAL
    In Hindu law. Any land or public fund producing a revenue to the government of Hindostan. "Mahalaat" is the plural.
  • MAHLBRIEF
    In maritime law. The German name for the contract for the building of a vessel. This contract contains a specification of the kind of vessel intended, her dimensions, the time within which she Is to be completed, the price and times of payment, etc. Jac. Sea Laws, 2-8.
  • MAIDEN
    In Scotch law. An instrument formerly used in beheading criminals. It resembled the French guillotine, of which It is said to have been the prototype. Wharton.
  • MAIDEN ASSIZE
    In English law. Originally an assize at which no person was condemned to die. Now it Is a session of a criminal court at which there are no prisoners to be tried.
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