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Important; more or less necessary; having influence or effect; going to the merits; having to do with matter, as distinguished from form. […]

The property or char-acter of being material. See Material Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. In tbe civil law. The mother or mistress of a family. A chaste woman, married or single. Calvin Source: Black’s Law […]

Lat in the civU law Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The officer second in command on a merchant vessel. Ely v. Peck, 7 Conn. 242; MiUaudon v. Martin, 6 Rob. (La.) 539 […]

In French Iaw. The hire of a ship or boat Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. The practice of selling the goods of dead seamen at the mast. Held void. 7 Mod. 14L Source: […]

In old records. A decayed house; a wall; the ruins of a bulldlng; a certaln quantlty of land, about four oxgangs Source: […]

In the civil law. A mass; an unwrought substance, such as gold or silver, before it is wrought into cups or other […]

To fatten with mast, (acorns, etc.) 1 Leon. 186 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old Scotch law. A maire; an officer or executor of summons, otherwise called “praeco regis.” Skene Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

L. Lat. A messuage Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A system of law, obtaining only in time of actual war and grow Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The feast of St. Martin of Tours, on the 11th of November; some-times corrupted Into “Martilmas” or “Mar-tlemas.” It is the third […]

A place of pnblic traffic or sale Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat To Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Arranging, ranklng, or disposing in order; particularly, in the case of a group or series of conflicting clalms or Interests, arranging them […]

In Engllsh law. A prison belonging to the king’s bench. It has now been consolldated with others, un-der the name of the […]

A woman who has a husband living and not divorced; a feme covert Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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

The seigniory of a mar-quis Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Marriage, as distingnished from the agreement to marry and from the act of becoming married, is the civil status ct one man […]

These words, “marque” and “reprisal,” are frequently used as synony-mous, but, taken in thelr strict etymological sense, the latter signifies a “taking […]

or MARQUESS. In English law. one of the second order of nobility; next in order to a duke Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

In practice and convey-ancing. one who makes his mark; a person who cannot write, and only makes his mark in executing instruments. […]