distraint the seizing of goods or other property of another to pay debts, such as that of a landlord against a tenant.

• mansuetae naturae
• march-fences
• Mareva injunction
• marginal notes
• marketable title
• market overt
• marriage
• marshalling
• Martinmas
• master
• Master of the Rolls
• material breach
• material facts
• maternity allowance
• maternity rights
• matrimonial home
• matrimonial property
• McNaghten rules
• MDP
• measures having equivalent effect (to quantitative restric- tions)
• Meech Lake Constitutional Accord
• member
• member state
• memorandum in writing
• mens rea