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Kenyon-Slaney Clause

shall affect any provision in a trust deed for reference to the Bishop or superior ecclesiastical or other denominational authority so far as such provision gives to the Bishop or authority the power of deciding whether the

Marshalsea prison (English).

6Vict. c. 22, amended by 11 & 12 Vict. c. 7, this prison is consolidated with others, and denominated the Queen's Prison, which see. As to the Four Courts Marshalsea (Dublin) Prison, see 37 & 38 Vict.

Marriage

Notices (Scotland) Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 43), or 'irregular' (see below). Any minister of any denomination may perform the marriage ceremony, which must take place before two witnesses after due proclamation of banns. One

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Marchet or marchetta

and Wales, as also in Scotland; and it still continues to obtain in some places. It is also denominated gwahr-merched, i.e., maid's-fee, Co. Litt. 117 b, 140 a

Mania a potu

Mania a potu, otherwise denominated delirium tremens, a disease induced from the intemperate use of spirituous liquors or certain other diffusible stimulants.

L'tare jerusalem

Lent or Easter offerings, so called from these words in the hymn of the day. They are also denominated quadragesimalia, Cowel's Law Dict.

Loan, gratuitous

Loan, gratuitous, a class of bailment called commodatum in the Roman Law, and denominated by Sir William Jones a loan for use (pret a usage), to distinguish it from mutuum, a loan

Inland

Inland, demesne land; that which was let to tenants being denominated outland (utland), Domesday. The expression used in relation to a postal article, means: (i) posted in India and

Foreign security

Foreign security, means any security, in the form of shares, stocks, bonds, debentures or any other instrument denominated or expressed in foreign currency and includes securities expressed in for-eign currency, but where redemption or any form

Misprision

Theftbote, and concealing treasure-trove, are each of them species of negative misprision, 4 Steph. Com. (2) Positive, otherwise denominated contempts of high misdemeanours, such as the mal-administration of such high officers as are in public trust and

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