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Pertaining to merchants or their buslness; havlng to do with trade Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A market. An old form of the latter word common in Scotch law, formed from the Latin “mercatum Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

Merchantable; to he sold or bought Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A foreign trader Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Midnight Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old records. Timbers; wood for building Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A collection or institute of the earliest laws of anclent India. The work is of very remote antiquity Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

Lat. To lie; to assert a falsehood. Calvin.; 3 Bulst 260 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The act of lying; a false-hood Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. A measure Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Relating to or existing in the mind; intellectual, emotional, or psychic, aa distinguished from bodily or physical Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

In the civil law. A measurer of land; a surveyor. Dig. 11, 6; Id. 50, 6, 6; Cod. 12, 28 Source: Black’s […]

In the clvll law. A money-changer or dealer in money. Dig. 2, 14, 47, 1 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Parsonages or spiritual liv-lngs united to the tables of religious houses, and called “mensal benefices” amongst the canonists. Cowell Source: Black’s Law […]

Lat. In the civil and old Eng-llsh law. A mouth. Mcnsis ret it us, the pro-hibited month; fence-month, (q. v Source: Black’s […]

Lat. Mind; intention; meaning; understanding; wilt Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. Patrimony or goods and necessary things for livelihood. Jacob. A table; the table of a money-changer. Dig. 2, 14, 47 Source: […]

In old Scotch law. A stock-horn; a horn made of wood, “with circles and glrds of the same.” Skene Source: Black’s Law […]

A servant of the lowest or-der; more strictly, a domestic servant living under his master’s roof. Boniface v. Scott, 3 Serg. & […]

Men who used in former days to ply about courts of law, so called from their manner of makiug known their occupation, […]

A threat; the declaration or show of a disposition or determination to inflict an evil or injury upon another. Cum-ming v. State, […]

Committing anything to memory. Used to describe the act of one who listens to a public representation of. a play or drama, […]

Mental capaclty; the mental power to review and recognize tbe successive states of consciousness in thelr consecutive order. Thls word, as used […]

A document presented to a legislative body, or to the executive, by one or more individuals, containing a petition or a representation […]

Lat. From memory; by or from recollection. Thus, memoriter proof of a written Instrument is such as is fur-nished by the recollection […]