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In French mercantile law. Damaged goods. … [Read more...] about MARCHANDISES AVARIEES

Latin: A hand. In the civil law, this word signified power, control, authority, the right of physical coercion, and was often used as synonymous with "potestae." In old English law, it signified an oath or the person taking an oath; a compurgator. Manns mortna. A dead hand; mortmain. Spelman. … [Read more...] about MANUS

In old English law. Noblemen who lived on the marshes of Wales or Scotland, and who, according to Camden, had their private laws, as if they had been petty kings; which were abolished by the statute 27 Hen. VIII. c. 26. Called also "lords marchers." Cowell. … [Read more...] about MARCHERS

A writing; a paper written with the hand; a writing that has not been printed. Parton v. Prang, 18 Fed. Cas. 1275; Leon Loan & Abstract Co. v. Equalization Board, 86 Iowa, 127, 53 N. W. 94, 17 L. R. A. 199, 41 Am. St. Rep. 486. … [Read more...] about MANUSCRIPT

An old English term for boundaries or frontiers, particularly the boundaries and limits between England and Wales, or between England and Scotland, or the borders of the dominions of the crown, or the boundaries of properties in Scotland. Mozley & Whitley. Marches, court of. An abolished tribunal in Wales, where pleas of debt or damages, not above the value of £50, were … [Read more...] about MARCHES