MISBEHAVIOUR. Improper or unlawful conduct. See 2 Mart. N. S. 683.2. A party guilty of misbehaviour; as, for example, to threaten to do injury to anot...
MINUTE, measures. In divisions of the circle or angular measures, a minute is equal to sixty seconds, or one sixtieth part of a degree.2. In the compu...
MINISTER, eccles. law. One ordained by some church to preach the gospel.2. Ministers are authorized in the United States, generally, to marry, and are...
MINISTER, government. An officer who is placed near the sovereign, and is invested with the administration of some one of the principal branches of th...
MILLED MONEY. This term means merely coined money, and it is not necessary that it should be marked or rolled on the edges. Running's case, Leach,...
MILL, estates. Mills are so very different and various, that it is not easy to give a definition of the term. They are used for the purpose of grindin...
MILITARY. That which belongs or relates to the army.MILITIA. The military force of the nation, consisting of citizens called forth to execute the laws...
MIDDLEMAN contracts. A person who is employed both by the seller and purchaser of goods, or by the purcbaser alone, to receive them into his possessio...
MICHAELMAS TERM. Eng. law. One of the four terms of the courts; it begins on the 2d day of November, and ends on the 25th of November. It was formerly...
MESNE, WRIT of. The name of an ancient writ, which lies when: the lord para- mount distrains on the tenant paravail; the latter shall have a writ of m...