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  • MANKIND
    Tbe race or species of human beings. In law, females, as well as males, may be included under this term. Fortesc. 91.
  • MANNER
    This is a word of large signification, but cannot exceed the subject to which it belongs. The incident cannot be extended beyond its principal. Wells v.- Bain, 75 Pa. 39, 54,15 Am. Rep. 563. Manner does not necessarily include time. Thus, a statutory requirement that a mining tax shall be More...
  • MANNER AND FORM; MODO ET FORMA
    Formal words Introduced at the conclusion of a traverse. Their object is to put the party whose pleading is traversed not only to the proof that the matter of fact denied is, in its general effect true as alleged, but also that the manner and form in which the fact More...
  • MANNING
    A day's work of a man. Cowell. A summoning to court Spelman.
  • MANNIRE
    To cite any person to appear in court and stand in judgment there. It is different from bannire; for, though both of them are citations, this is by tbe adverse party, and that is by the judge. Du Cange.
  • MANNOPUS
    In old English law. Goods taken in the hands of an apprehended thief. The same as "mainour" (q. v.)
  • MANNUS
    A horse. CowelL
  • MANOR
    A house, dwelling, seat or residence. In English law, the manor was originally a tract of land granted out by the king to a lord or other great person, in fee. It was otherwise called a "barony" or "lordship," and appendant to it was the right to hold a court, More...
  • MANQUELLER
    In Saxon law. A murderer.
  • MANRENT
    In Scotch law. The service of a man or vassal. A bond of manrent was an instrument by which a person, in order to secure the protection of some powerful lord, bound himself to such lord for the performance of certain services.
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