Important; more or less necessary; having influence or effect; going to the merits; having to do with matter, as distinguished from form. An allegation is sald to be material when it forms a substan-tive part of the case presented by the plead-ing. Evidence offered in a cause, or a question propounded, is material when it is rele-vant and goes to the substantial matters in dispute, or has a legitimate and effective
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The property or char-acter of being material. See Material
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Lat. In tbe civil law. The mother or mistress of a family. A chaste woman, married or single. Calvin
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The officer second in command on a merchant vessel. Ely v. Peck, 7 Conn. 242; MiUaudon v. Martin, 6 Rob. (La.) 539
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In old English law. The practice of selling the goods of dead seamen at the mast. Held void. 7 Mod. 14L
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In old records. A decayed house; a wall; the ruins of a bulldlng; a certaln quantlty of land, about four oxgangs
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In the civil law. A mass; an unwrought substance, such as gold or silver, before it is wrought into cups or other articles. Dig. 47, 2, 52, 14; Fleta, llb. 2, c. CO, M 17. 22
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In old Scotch law. A maire; an officer or executor of summons, otherwise called “praeco regis.” Skene
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A system of law, obtaining only in time of actual war and grow
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The feast of St. Martin of Tours, on the 11th of November; some-times corrupted Into “Martilmas” or “Mar-tlemas.” It is the third of the four cross quarter-days of the year, wharton
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Arranging, ranklng, or disposing in order; particularly, in the case of a group or series of conflicting clalms or Interests, arranging them in such an order of sequence, or so directing the manner of thelr satisfaction, as shall secure justice to all persons concerned and the largest possible measure of satisfaction to each. See sub-titles infra
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In Engllsh law. A prison belonging to the king’s bench. It has now been consolldated with others, un-der the name of the “King’s Prison.” —Marshalsea, conrt of. The court of the Marshalsea had jurisdiction in actions of debt or torts, the cause of wbich arose within the verge of the royal court. It was abolished by St. 12 & 13 Vict. c. 101. 4 Steph. Comm. 317, note d
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A woman who has a husband living and not divorced; a feme covert
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Marriage, as distingnished from the agreement to marry and from the act of becoming married, is the civil status ct one man and one woman united In law for life, for the discharge to each other and the community of the duties legally lncum-bent on those whose association is founded on the distinction of sex. 1 Bish. Mar.
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These words, “marque” and “reprisal,” are frequently used as synony-mous, but, taken in thelr strict etymological sense, the latter signifies a “taking in re-turn;” the former, the passing the frontiers (marches) in order to such taking. Letters of marque and reprisal are grantable, by the law of nations, whenever the subjects of one state are oppressed and injured by those of another, and justice is denied by that state to which the oppressor belongs; and the par-ty to whom these letters are granted may then seize the bodies or the goods of the sub-jects of the state to which the offender be-iongs, until satisfaction be made, wherever they happen to be found. Reprisals are to be grauted only In case of a clear and open denial of Justice. At the present day, in consequence partly of treaties and partly of the practice of nations, the making of reprisals is confined to the seizure of commer* dal property on the high seas by public cruisers, or by private cruisers specially au-thorized thereto. Brown
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or MARQUESS. In English law. one of the second order of nobility; next in order to a duke
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In practice and convey-ancing. one who makes his mark; a person who cannot write, and only makes his mark in executing instruments. Arch. N. Pr. 13; 2 Chit. 92
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