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An officious or unlawful intermeddling in a cause depending between others, by assisting either party with money or means to carry it on. See Champerty. Wharton. Cap of maintenance. See under Cap.

The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc

Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacayemarketable.

nuptial state; marriage; wedlock. If either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in matrimony, ye do now confessit. Book of Com. Prayer (Eng. Ed. )

nture. Chaucer. Homicide by misadventure (Law), homicide which occurs when a man, doing a lawful act, without any intention of injury, unfortunately kills another; -- called also excusable homicide. See Homicide. Blackstone.

Unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin; pernicious. "Valor misbegot." Shak.

A trespass; a wrong done; the improper doing of an act which a person might lawfully do. Bouvier. Wharton.

Unlawful use of a right; use in excess of, or varying from, one's right. Bouvier.

Hence: A throgn; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd. The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. Pope. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. Madison. Confused by brainless mobs. Tennyson. Mob law, law administered by the mob; lync…

nk note, a certificate of deposit, etc., which is payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it; in a comprehensive sense, any currency usually and lawfully employed in buying and selling.

Lawful issue born in wedlock, in distinction from an elder brother born of the same parents before their marriage; a lawful son.

Condition of being a mulier; position of one born in lawful wedlock.

a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide. "Mordre will out." Chaucer. The killing of their children had, in the account of God, the guilt of murder, as the offering them to idols had the guilt of idolatry. Locke. Slaughter grows murder when it goes too fa…

One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice.

arly military or naval authority; concerted revolt against the rules of discipline or the lawful commands of a superior officer; hence, generally, forcible resistance to rightful authority; insubordination. In every mutiny against the discipline of the college, he was the ringleader. Macaulay.

ght not be received again into communion with the church, and that second marriages are unlawful.

One who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police officer; a staff officer. "I am an officer of state." Shak.

An unlawful meeting.

s of a nation or people having authority to make laws. They made request that it might be lawful for them to summon a parliament of Gauls. Golding.

may be considered separately; as, the particulars of a story. Particulars which it is not lawful for me to reveal. Bacon. It is the greatest interest of particulars to advance the good of the community. L'Estrange.