The executive head of a municipal corporation; the governor or chief
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Maimed. This is a term of art w’hich cannot be supplied In pleading by any other word, as mutilavit, truneavit, etc. 3 Thom. Co. Litt. 548; Com. v. Newell, 7 Mass. 247
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An established principle or proposition. A principle of law universally admitted, as being a correct statement of the iaw, or as agreeable to natural reason
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In criminal law. The act of unlawfully and violently depriving another of the nse of such of his members as may render him less able, in fighting, either to defend himself or annoy his adversary
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L Fr. In spite of; against the will of. Litt f 672
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The day pre-ceding Good Friday, on which princes gave alms
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Facts; substance as distinguished from form; the merits of a case
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In mercantile law. The time when a blll of exchange or promissory note becomes due. Story, Bllls, | 329. Gil-bert v. Sprague, 88 111. App. 508; wheeless v. williams, 62 Miss. 371, 52 Am. Rep. 190
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A married woman; an elderly woman. The female superintendent of an establishment or institution, such as a
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Such a jury ie impaneled to try if a woman condemned to death be with child
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In the civil law. The proto-col or first draft of a legal instrument, from which all copies must be taken. See Downing v. Diaz, 80 Tex. 436, 16 S. W. 53
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Lat A mother church. This term was anciently applied to a cathedral, in relation to the other churches in the same see, or to a parochial church, in relation to the chapels or minor churches attached to it or depending on it. Blount
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Lat. In Roman law. A legal marriage, contracted in strict ac–cordance with the forms of the older Roman law, i. e., either with the farreum, the coemptio, or by usus. This was allowed only to Roman citizens and to those neighboring peoples to whom the right of connubium had been conceded. The effect of such a marriage was to bring the wife Into the manus, ■or marital power, of the husband, and to ■create the patria potestas over the children
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Marriage, (q. v.,) in the sense of tbe relatlon or status, not of the ceremony
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of or pertaining to matrimony or the estate of marriage
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The murder of a mother ; or one who has slain his mother
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In the clvll and old English law. A register of the admission of of-flcers and persons eAtered lnto any body or
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Lat in the civil law! A maternal aunt; a mother’s sister. Inst. 3, 6, Bract fol. 68b
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That which belongs to, or comes from, the mother; as maternal au-thorlty, maternal relation, maternal estate, maternal llne
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The character, relation, state, or condition of a mother
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The substance or matter of which anything is made; matter furnished for the erection of a house, ship, or other structure; matter used or intended to he used in the construction of any mechanical product See Moyer v. Pennsylvania Slate Co., 71 Pa. 293
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Lat A max-im of the French law, signifying that prop-erty of a decedent acquired by him through hls mother descends to the relations on the mother’s side
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