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- M
- Machine-Or-Transformation Test
- Magistrate Judge
- Magnitude-Probability Test
- Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act (MMWA)
- Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
- Mailbox Rule
- Mail-Fraud Statute
- Maintenance
- Maintenance and Cure
- Maintenance of Membership
- Major Crimes Act of 1885
- Major-Fraud Statute
- Majority At-Large Voting
- Majority-Interest Petition
- Major-Questions Doctrine
- Make-Whole Premium
- Mala in se
- Malapportionment
- Malfeasance
- Malfunction Theory
- Malice
- Malice Aforethought
- Malice murder
- Malicious Prosecution
- Maloney Act of 1938
- Malum in se
- Malum prohibitum
- Malus Animus
- Management-Functions Clause
- Manager’s Privilege
- Managing Conservator
- Managing member
- Managing Partner
- Mandamus
- Mandamus action
- Mandated Reporter
- Mandatory Bargaining Subject
- Mandatory Distribution Provision
- Mandatory Minimum Sentence
- Mandatory Reporter
- Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996
- Manifestation of Assent
- Manifest Disregard of the Law
- Manifest-Injustice Doctrine
- Manifest Necessity
- Manipulation
- Manipulative Device
- Mann Act
- Manslaughter
- Manson/Madison Test
- Manufacture of a Controlled Substance
- Manufacturer's Duty to Warn
- Manufacturing Defect
- Manumit
- Mareva Injunction
- Margin
- Margin Call
- Margin of Appreciation
- Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972