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MANIA A POTU. Insanity arising from the use of spirituous liquors. Vide Delirium Tremens.MANIFEST, com. law. A written instrument containing a true ac...

MANDATE, civil law. Mandates were the instructions which the emperor addressed to public functionaries, which were to serve as rules for their conduct...

MANDANT. The principal in the contract of mandate is so called. Story, Ag. 337.MANDATARIUS. One who is entrusted with and undertakes to perform a mand...

MANBOTE. In a barbarous age, when impunity could be purchased with money, the compensation which was paid for homicide was called manbote.MANCIPATIO, ...

MALUM IN SE. Evil in itself.2. An offence malum in se is one which is naturally evil, as murder, theft, and the like; offences at common law are gener...

MALICIOUS PROSECUTION, or MALICIOUS ARREST, torts, or remedies. These terms import a wanton prosecution or arrest, made by a prosecutor in a criminal ...

MALICE, torts. The doing any act injurious to another without a just cause.2. This term, as applied to torts, does not necessarily mean that which mus...

MALA PROHIBITA. Those things which are prohibited by law, and therefore unlawful.2. A distinction was formerly made in respect of contracts, between m...

TO MAKE. English law. To perform or execute; as to make his law, is to per- form that law which a man had bound himself to do; that is, to clear himse...

MAINTENANCE, quasi contracts. The support which one person, who is bound by law to do so, gives to another for his living; for example, a father is bo...