In old practice. Greater right or more right A plea in the old real actions. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 476. Alajus jus merum, more mere right Bract, fol. 31.
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lawful assistance. Bayard v. McLanc, 3 liar. (Del.) 208. “Maintenance,” at common law , signifies an unlawful taking in hand or upholding of quarrels or sides, to the disturbance or […]
MAKE A MARKET
Over the counter trading of a particular security by a dealer able, ready, and willing to buy and/or sell.
MAKE OR BUY DECISION
To make a particular item in-house, or to buy it from a supplier as a more advantageous determination . Qualitative quality control and quantitative relative cost are factors considered in […]
MAKE READY
To change from one job to another or a machine operation setup.
MAKE WHOLE PROVISION
Pre-maturity-date payoff as a bond option for the borrower. with regard to amount with regard to amount is the basis for the expected lump so if doing so.
MAKE-GOOD
Rerunning the corrected ad or correctly timed commercial as a promise to ‘make an error good’ by a medium. Newspaper, magazine, radio or TV station as an advertising medium gives […]
MAKE-UP AIR
Ventilating equipment to heat or cool circulates purchased fresh outside air throughout a building.
MAKER
One who makes, frames, or ordains; as a “law-maker.” One who makes or executes; as the maker of a promissory note . See Aud v. Magruder, 10 Cal. 290; Sawyers […]
MAKING LAW
In old practice. The formality of denying a plaintiff’s charge under oath, in open court, with compurgators. One of the ancient methods of trial, frequently, though inaccurately, termed “waging law,” […]
MAL
A prefix meaning bad, wrong, fraudulent; as maladministration , malpractice , malversation , etc.
MAL GREE L
Fr. Against the will ; without the consent. Hence the single word “malgre,” and more modern “maugre,” (q. v.)
MAL-TOLTE
748Fr. In old French law. A term said to have arisen from the usurious gains of the Jews and Lombards in their management of the public revenue. Steph. Leet 372.
MALA
Lat Bad ; evil; wrongful.
MALA FIDES
a Latin phrase for in bad faith.
MALADMINISTRATION
This term is used, in the law-books, interchangeably with mis- administration , and both words mean “wrong administration.” Minkler v. State, 14 Neb. 1S3, 15 N. W. 331.
MALANDRINUS
In old English law . A thief or pirate. Wals. 338.
MALARIA
Anopheles mosquito spreads this infectious, tropical, severe parasitic disease. It annually affects 300 to 500 million people. Two million deaths, most of them children in subSahara Africa result. Found in […]
MALARY
In Hindu law. Judicial; belonging to a judge or magistrate .
MALBERGE
A hill where the people assembled at a court, like the English assizes ; which by the Scotch and Irish were called “parley hills.” Du Cange.
MALCONDUCT
term that means misconduct , the maladministration , dishonest behaviour.
MALCONNA
In Hindu law. A treasury or store-house.
MALE CHAUVINISM
Male-over-female superiority in the workplace as an unsubstantiated belief. Female employees fight those who disparage, denigrate or otherwise humiliate by this practice and belief.
MALE CREDITUS
In old English law . Unfavorably thought of; in bad repute or credit. Bract, fols. 116, 154. Maledicta est expositio quae corrum- pit textnm. That is a cursed interpretation which […]
MALEDICTION
A curse, which was anciently annexed to donations of lands made to churches or religious houses, against those who should violate their rights. Cowell.