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                  Ma Me Mi Mo Mu
                  Mac Mai Man Mar

                  mail, maills and duties

                  mail is the Scots word for rent; maills and duties were the yearly rents of an estate due in money or grain. An action of mails and duties was a form of diligence by which a heritable creditor obtained rents due.