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Mater familias
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Mater familiasCivil law. The mother of a family, and, by extension, the mistress of a family.
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Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Mother
Domestic relations. A woman who has borne a child.
Family
Domestic relations. In a limited sense it signifies the father, mother, and children. In a more extensive sense it comprehends all the individuals who live under the authority of another, and includes the servants of the family. It is also employed to signify all the relations who descend from a common ancestor, or who spring from a common root.
Extension
Common law. This term is applied among merchants to signify an agreement made between a debtor and his creditors, by which the latter, in order to enable the former, embarrassed in his circumstances, to retrieve his standing, agree to wait for a definite length of time after their several claims should become due and payable, before they will demand payment.
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Mate
The second officer on board of a merchant ship or vessel.
Material evidence
Evidence which is relevant to the issues in a case.
Material men
This name is given to persons who furnish materials for the purpose of constructing or erecting ships, houses, and other buildings.
Materiality
That which is important; that which is not merely of form but of substance.
Materials
Everything of which anything is made.
Materna maternis
This expression is used in the French law to signify that in a succession the property coming from the mother of a deceased person, descends to his maternal relations.
Maternal
That which belongs to, or comes from the mother: as, maternal authority, maternal relation, maternal estate, maternal line.
Maternal property
That which comes from the mother of the party, and other ascendants of the maternal stock.
Maternity
The state or condition of a mother.
Matertera
Maternal aunt; the sister of one's mother.
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Master in chancery
An officer of the court of chancery. The origin of these officers is thus accounted for. The chancellor from the first found it necessary to have a number of clerks, were it for no other purpose, than to perform the mechanical part of the business, the writing; these soon rose to the number of twelve. In process of time this number being found insufficient, these clerks contrived to have other clerks under them, and then, the original clerks became distinguished by the name of masters in chancery. He is an assistant to the chancellor, who refers to him interlocu-tory orders for stating accounts, computing damages, and the like. Masters in chancery are also invested with other powers, by local regulations.
Master of a ship
Maritime law. The commander or first officer of a ship; a captain.
Master of the rolls
English law. An officer who bears this title, and who acts as an assistant to the lord chancellor, in the court of chancery.
Master's disbursements
Expenditures made by the master and paid for with his own funds or obtained on his personal credit for the purchase of necessaries (infra) for the ship. A maritime lien is granted for such disbursements, but both the disbursements and the lien are virtually extinct today, because modern means of communication obviate the need for them, and because masters no longer wish to bind their own credit to obtain necessaries for the ship.
Mate
The second officer on board of a merchant ship or vessel.
Mater familias
Material evidence
Evidence which is relevant to the issues in a case.
Material men
This name is given to persons who furnish materials for the purpose of constructing or erecting ships, houses, and other buildings.
Materiality
That which is important; that which is not merely of form but of substance.
Materials
Everything of which anything is made.
Materna maternis
This expression is used in the French law to signify that in a succession the property coming from the mother of a deceased person, descends to his maternal relations.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Mother
Domestic relations. A woman who has borne a child.
Family
Domestic relations. In a limited sense it signifies the father, mother, and children. In a more extensive sense it comprehends all the individuals who live under the authority of another, and includes the servants of the family. It is also employed to signify all the relations who descend from a common ancestor, or who spring from a common root.
Extension
Common law. This term is applied among merchants to signify an agreement made between a debtor and his creditors, by which the latter, in order to enable the former, embarrassed in his circumstances, to retrieve his standing, agree to wait for a definite length of time after their several claims should become due and payable, before they will demand payment.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Mate
The second officer on board of a merchant ship or vessel.
Material evidence
Evidence which is relevant to the issues in a case.
Material men
This name is given to persons who furnish materials for the purpose of constructing or erecting ships, houses, and other buildings.
Materiality
That which is important; that which is not merely of form but of substance.
Materials
Everything of which anything is made.
Materna maternis
This expression is used in the French law to signify that in a succession the property coming from the mother of a deceased person, descends to his maternal relations.
Maternal
That which belongs to, or comes from the mother: as, maternal authority, maternal relation, maternal estate, maternal line.
Maternal property
That which comes from the mother of the party, and other ascendants of the maternal stock.
Maternity
The state or condition of a mother.
Matertera
Maternal aunt; the sister of one's mother.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Master in chancery
An officer of the court of chancery. The origin of these officers is thus accounted for. The chancellor from the first found it necessary to have a number of clerks, were it for no other purpose, than to perform the mechanical part of the business, the writing; these soon rose to the number of twelve. In process of time this number being found insufficient, these clerks contrived to have other clerks under them, and then, the original clerks became distinguished by the name of masters in chancery. He is an assistant to the chancellor, who refers to him interlocu-tory orders for stating accounts, computing damages, and the like. Masters in chancery are also invested with other powers, by local regulations.
Master of a ship
Maritime law. The commander or first officer of a ship; a captain.
Master of the rolls
English law. An officer who bears this title, and who acts as an assistant to the lord chancellor, in the court of chancery.
Master's disbursements
Expenditures made by the master and paid for with his own funds or obtained on his personal credit for the purchase of necessaries (infra) for the ship. A maritime lien is granted for such disbursements, but both the disbursements and the lien are virtually extinct today, because modern means of communication obviate the need for them, and because masters no longer wish to bind their own credit to obtain necessaries for the ship.
Mate
The second officer on board of a merchant ship or vessel.
Mater familias
Material evidence
Evidence which is relevant to the issues in a case.
Material men
This name is given to persons who furnish materials for the purpose of constructing or erecting ships, houses, and other buildings.
Materiality
That which is important; that which is not merely of form but of substance.
Materials
Everything of which anything is made.
Materna maternis
This expression is used in the French law to signify that in a succession the property coming from the mother of a deceased person, descends to his maternal relations.
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