An entity’s most appealing asset as it typically is worth the most or is the biggest contribution to the entity’s overall bottom line . A marquee asset is also known […]

The seigniory of a marquis.

In English law . One of the second order of nobility; next in order to a duke.

the name that is given to the document that is signed by the person who performs the marriage ceremony.

a term given to the things that spouses need to tell each other before they get married such as previous marriages, criminal convictions etc.

the document that is executed by the public authority that gives a couple the permission to marry.

term applied to a written agreement with details of property settlement in case there is a divorce.

Purchaser owns the underlying stock in this type of put option. It protects against the decline in the stock’s price as the owner can sell the stock at a higher […]

A woman who has a husband living and not divorced; a feme covert.

the term that is given to the laws that govern the property of a husband and wife together.

In old English law . The title borne by several officers of state and of the law, of whom the most important were the following: (1) The earl-marshal, who presided […]

Arranging, ranking, or disposing in order; particularly, in the case of a group or series of conflicting claims or interests, arranging them in such an order of sequence, or so […]

the term given to the list of a persons assets in order of value so they can be given to creditors.

In English law . A prison belonging to the king’s bench . It has now been consolidated with others, under the name of the “King’s Prison.”

A place of public traffic or sale.

Lat. To run by its own force. A term applied in the civil law to a suit when it ran Its course to the end without any impediment Calvin.

Named after the German metallurgist Adolf Martens (1850-1914). A crystal having a characteristic body-centered tetragonal crystalline structure, formed via displacive transformation , typically steel or another mineral. Also refer to […]

Steels that contain very little nickel or other alloying metal, yet a high amount of chromium. Heat treatment of these steels hardens them and makes them stronger but also more […]

A system of law, obtaining only in time of actual war and grow MARTIAL LAW 7G4

Stochastic process in which at any stage an observation’s expected value , conditional on all previous observations, is equal to the most recent prior observation. Named after the harness that […]

The feast of St. Martin of Tours, on the 11th of November; sometimes corrupted into “Martilinas” or “Mar- tleinas.” It is the third of the four cross quarter-days of the […]

In old Scotch law . A maire; an ofiicer or executor of summons. Otherwise called “praco reyis.” Skeue.

Economic, social, and political philosophy as a organized method based on the view that social change is definable in terms of economic factors. The means of production is the economic […]

A follower of the Marxism ideology and its principles.

L Lat. A messuage.