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Machine
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MachineA contrivance which serves to apply or regulate moving power; or it is a tool more or less complicated, which is used to render useful natural instruments, Clef. des Lois Rom.
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Power
This is either inherent or derivative. The former is the right, ability, or faculty of doing something, without receiving that right, ability, or faculty from another. The people have the power to establish a form of govemment, or to change one already established. A father has the legal power to chastise his son; a master, his apprentice.
Render
To yield; to return; to give again; it is the reverse of prender.
Useful
That which may be put into beneficial practice.
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Machination
The act by which some plot or conspiracy is set on foot.
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Mushfake
In Ohio penitentiary slang, any prisoner made item, including shanks or handmade weapons.
M
When persons were convicted of manslaughter in England, they were formerly marked with this letter on the brawn of the thumb. This letter is sometimes put on the face of treasury notes of the United States, and signifies that the treasury note bears interest at the rate of one mill per centum, and not one per centum interest.
Mace-bearer
English law. An officer attending the court of session.
Macedonian decree
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 principle object, was to cast odium on the rapacious creditors. It declared such contracts void.
Machination
The act by which some plot or conspiracy is set on foot.
Machine
Made known
These words are used as a return to a scire facias, when it has been served on the defendant.
Magister
A master, a ruler, one whose learning and position makes him su- perior to others, thus: one who has attained to a high degree, or eminence, in science and literature, is called a master; as, master of arts.
Magister ad facultates
English ecclesiastical law. The title of an officer who grants dispensations; as, to marry, to eat flesh on days prohibited, and the like.
Magister navis
The master of a ship; a sea captain.
Magister societatis
Civil law. The principal manager of the business of a society or partnership.
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Power
This is either inherent or derivative. The former is the right, ability, or faculty of doing something, without receiving that right, ability, or faculty from another. The people have the power to establish a form of govemment, or to change one already established. A father has the legal power to chastise his son; a master, his apprentice.
Render
To yield; to return; to give again; it is the reverse of prender.
Useful
That which may be put into beneficial practice.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Machination
The act by which some plot or conspiracy is set on foot.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Mushfake
In Ohio penitentiary slang, any prisoner made item, including shanks or handmade weapons.
M
When persons were convicted of manslaughter in England, they were formerly marked with this letter on the brawn of the thumb. This letter is sometimes put on the face of treasury notes of the United States, and signifies that the treasury note bears interest at the rate of one mill per centum, and not one per centum interest.
Mace-bearer
English law. An officer attending the court of session.
Macedonian decree
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 principle object, was to cast odium on the rapacious creditors. It declared such contracts void.
Machination
The act by which some plot or conspiracy is set on foot.
Machine
Made known
These words are used as a return to a scire facias, when it has been served on the defendant.
Magister
A master, a ruler, one whose learning and position makes him su- perior to others, thus: one who has attained to a high degree, or eminence, in science and literature, is called a master; as, master of arts.
Magister ad facultates
English ecclesiastical law. The title of an officer who grants dispensations; as, to marry, to eat flesh on days prohibited, and the like.
Magister navis
The master of a ship; a sea captain.
Magister societatis
Civil law. The principal manager of the business of a society or partnership.
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