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The executive head of a municipal corporation; the governor or chief Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Maimed. This is a term of art w’hich cannot be supplied In pleading by any other word, as mutilavit, truneavit, etc. 3 […]

L. Fr. A hand; handwriting. Britt c. 28 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

An established principle or proposition. A principle of law universally admitted, as being a correct statement of the iaw, or as agreeable […]

In criminal law. The act of unlawfully and violently depriving another of the nse of such of his members as may render […]

L Fr. In spite of; against the will of. Litt f 672 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The day pre-ceding Good Friday, on which princes gave alms Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Facts; substance as distinguished from form; the merits of a case Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In mercantile law. The time when a blll of exchange or promissory note becomes due. Story, Bllls, | 329. Gil-bert v. Sprague, […]

A married woman; an elderly woman. The female superintendent of an establishment or institution, such as a Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

Such a jury ie impaneled to try if a woman condemned to death be with child Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

In the civil law. The proto-col or first draft of a legal instrument, from which all copies must be taken. See Downing […]

Lat A mother church. This term was anciently applied to a cathedral, in relation to the other churches in the same see, […]

Lat. In Roman law. A legal marriage, contracted in strict ac–cordance with the forms of the older Roman law, i. e., either […]

Marriage, (q. v.,) in the sense of tbe relatlon or status, not of the ceremony Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To enter as a stu-dent in a. university Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

of or pertaining to matrimony or the estate of marriage Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The murder of a mother ; or one who has slain his mother Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In the clvll and old English law. A register of the admission of of-flcers and persons eAtered lnto any body or Source: […]

Lat in the civil law! A maternal aunt; a mother’s sister. Inst. 3, 6, Bract fol. 68b Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

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That which belongs to, or comes from, the mother; as maternal au-thorlty, maternal relation, maternal estate, maternal llne Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

The character, relation, state, or condition of a mother Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The substance or matter of which anything is made; matter furnished for the erection of a house, ship, or other structure; matter […]

Lat A max-im of the French law, signifying that prop-erty of a decedent acquired by him through hls mother descends to the […]