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Eng. law. An officer attending the court of session. … [Read more...] about MACE-BEARER

Certain regulations prescribed for the government of the Madras presidency. Mozley & Whitley. … [Read more...] about MADRAS REGULATIONS

A public officer belonging to the civil organization of the state, and invested with powers and functions which may be either judicial, legislative, or executive. But the term is commonly used in a narrower sense, designating, in England, a person intrusted with the commission of the peace, and, in America, one of the class of inferior judicial officers, such as justices of the … [Read more...] about MAGISTRATE

civil law. A decree of the Roman senate, which derived its name from that of a certain usurer who was the cause of its being made, in consequence of his exactions. It was intended to protect sons who lived under the paternal jurisdiction, from the unconscionable contracts which they sometimes made on the expectations after their fathers' deaths; another, and perhaps, the … [Read more...] about MACEDONIAN DECREE

In Saxon law. Kindred; family. … [Read more...] about MAEC-BURGH