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Exercising a Civic Muscle

March 1, 2026 by drB
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I’ve never had a broken bone. (Can you hear me knock on wood?) But like all of us, I’ve had friends who have not only suffered the pain of a break, but the effects of the cast as well. The cast comes off and often the muscle seems to have shrunk. A muscle not used … Read more

Categories Live & Learn, Uncategorized Tags citizen, civic muscle, civics, Vote411, Voting 2 Comments
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Marchet

A pecuniary fine anciently paid by a tenant, serf, or bondsman to his lord for the liberty of disposing of a daughter in marriage. This payment, called in law Latin marcheta or mercheta mulierum (the mark-fee of women), was exacted in England, Scotland, and most other countries of Europe.

Example usage: Certainly the notion, to which Sir John Skene gave currency, in the sixteenth century, that the marchet or merchet was pecuniary commutation for a former right claimed by feudal lord of sleeping with his vassals' daughters on wedding night, derives no support from the account of marchet or merchet given in the most ancient code Scottish laws, the so called Regiam Majestatem.

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