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In English law. One of the second order of nobility; next in order to a duke. … [Read more...] about MARQUIS, OR MARQUESS

A system of law, obtaining only in time of actual war and growing out of the exigencies thereof, arbitrary in its character, and depending only on the will of the commander of an army, which is established and administered in a place or district of hostile territory held in belligerent possession, or, sometimes, in places occupied or pervaded by insurgents or mobs, and which … [Read more...] about MARTIAL LAW

The seigniory of a marquis. … [Read more...] about MARQUISATE

The feast of St. Martin of Tours, on the 11th of November; sometimes corrupted into "Martilmas" or "Mar tlemas." It is the third of the four cross quarter days of the year. Wharton. … [Read more...] about MARTINMAS

Marriage, as distinguished from the agreement to marry and from the act of becoming married, is the civil status of one man and one woman united in law for life, for the discharge to each other and the community of the duties legally incumbent on those whose association is founded on the distinction of sex. A contract, according to the form prescribed by law, by which a man and … [Read more...] about MARRIAGE