In military law. An officer next in rank above a brigadier general, and next below a lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or an army corps. Major hsereditas venit unicnique nostrum a jnre et legibus qnam a parenti bus. 2 Inst 56. A greater inheritance comes to every one of us from right and the laws than from parents. Major numeral in se continet mi norem. Bract, fol. 16. The greater number contains in itself the less.