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Matricula






Matricula

Civil law. A register in which are inscribed the names of persons who become members of an association or society.In the ancient church there was matricula clericorum, which was a catalogue of the officiating clergy; and matricula pauperum, a list of the poor to be relieved; hence to be entered in the university is to be matriculated.

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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.

Register
1) Register or Registrar. An officer authorized by law to keep a record called a register or registry; as the register for the probate of wills.2) Common law. The certificate of registry granted to the person or persons entitled thereto, by the collector of the district, comprehending the port to which any ship or vessel shall belong; more properly, the registry itself. 3) Evidence. A book containing a record of facts as they occur, kept by public authority; a register of births, marriages and burials.

Members
English law. Places where a custom-house has been kept of old time, with officers or deputies in attendance; and they are lawful places of exportation or importation.

Association
The act of a number of persons uniting together for some purpose; the persons so joined are also called an association.

Church
A temple or building consecrated to the Honor of God and religion; or, an assembly of persons, united by the profession of the same Christian faith, met together for all religious worship. Robertson v. Bullions, 9 Barb. 95 (1850). The civil courts have only to do with the rights of property. When a right of property depends on a civil court question, and that question has been decided by the highest tribunal within the religious organization to which it has been carried, the civil courts accept that decision as final. Relations of Civil Law to Church Policy (1875) Hon. William Strong; Watson v. Jones, 13 Wall. 713, 722-31 (1871).

Matricula
Civil law. A register in which are inscribed the names of persons who become members of an association or society.In the ancient church there was matricula clericorum, which was a catalogue of the officiating clergy; and matricula pauperum, a list of the poor to be relieved; hence to be entered in the university is to be matriculated.

Clergy
All who are attached to the ecclesiastical ministry are called the clergy; a clergyman is therefore an ecclesiastical minister.

List
A table of cases arranged for trial or argument; as, the trial list, the argument list.

University
The name given to certain societies or corporations which are seminaries of learning where youth are sent to finish their education. Among the civilians by this term is understood a corporation.



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Matrimonial causes
In the English ecclesiastical courts there are five kinds of causes which are classed under this head. 1. Causes for a malicious jactitation. 2. Suits for nullity of marriage, on account of fraud, incest, or other bar to the marriage. 3. Suits for restitution of conjugal rights. 4. Suits for divorces on account of cruelty or adultery, or causes which have arisen since the marriage. 5. Suits for alimony.

Matrimonium
By this word is understood the inheritance descending to a man, ex parti matris. It is but little used.

Matrimony
A contract made in due form of law, by which a free man and a free woman reciprocally engage to live with each other during their joint lives, in the union which ought io exist between husband and wife. By the terms freeman and freewoman in this definition are meant, not only that they are free and not slaves, but also that they are clear of all bars to a lawful marriage.

Matrina
A godmother.

Matron
A married woman, generally an elderly married woman.



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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.

Mathematical evidence
That evidence which is established by a demonstration. It is used in contradistinction to moral evidence.

Matricula

Matrimonial causes
In the English ecclesiastical courts there are five kinds of causes which are classed under this head. 1. Causes for a malicious jactitation. 2. Suits for nullity of marriage, on account of fraud, incest, or other bar to the marriage. 3. Suits for restitution of conjugal rights. 4. Suits for divorces on account of cruelty or adultery, or causes which have arisen since the marriage. 5. Suits for alimony.

Matrimonium
By this word is understood the inheritance descending to a man, ex parti matris. It is but little used.

Matrimony
A contract made in due form of law, by which a free man and a free woman reciprocally engage to live with each other during their joint lives, in the union which ought io exist between husband and wife. By the terms freeman and freewoman in this definition are meant, not only that they are free and not slaves, but also that they are clear of all bars to a lawful marriage.

Matrina
A godmother.

Matron
A married woman, generally an elderly married woman.

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