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Central Criminal Court
Newgate of the prisoners therein charged with any of the offences aforesaid. The Court consists of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen and also of the Judges; and there are twelve sessions held in every year, at times
Alderman
word is now confined to the class of municipal officers in a borough next in order to the mayor. The (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1835 (5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 76), which gave aldermen no special
Replication
Judicature Acts the term for a plaintiff's answer to a defendant's plea, and still so used in the Mayor's Court, London. See now REPLY.
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Mansion
a manendo], the lord's house in a manor. Cf. The Mansion House, the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London. See next title.
Mayorality
Mayorality, the office of a mayor.
Mediators of questions
who, upon any question arising among merchants, relating to unmerchantable wool, or undue packing, etc., might, before the mayor and officers of the staple, upon their oath, certify and settle the same; to whose determination therein the
Mistake
common condition of the sale of land that any error or misdescription shall not vitiate the sale, and mayor may not be made the subject of compensation, and this condition applies whether an error complained of was
Nomination
Nomination, is equivalent to the word 'appointments'. When used by a mayor in an instrument executed for the purpose of appointing certain persons to office, (P. Ramanatha Aiyar's Law Lexicon,
Orphan
of whose parents are dead (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 70, s. 44). In London the Lord Mayor and Aldermen have in their Court of Orphans the custody of the orphans of deceased freemen, and also
Plague
31, it was a capital offence for any infected with the plague, after having been commanded by the mayor or constable, etc., to keep house, to go abroad and in company. This Act was repealed by 7
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