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  • MAN-TRAPS
    Engines to catch trespassers, now unlawful unless set in a dwelling-house for defense between sunset and sunrise. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 100, ? 3L
  • MANTU BREVI
    Lat. With a short hand. A term used in the civil law, siguify- ing shortly; directly; by the shortest , course; without circuity.
  • MANU FORTI
    Lat With strong hand. A term used in old writs of trespass. Manu forti et cum multitudine gentium, with strong hand and multitude of people. Reg. Orig. 183.
  • MANU LONGA
    Lat. With a long hand. A term used in the civil law, signifying iu-direcjtly or clrcuitonsly. Calvin".
  • MANU OPERA
    Lat Cattle or implements of husbandry; also stolen goods taken from a thief caught in the fact. Cowell.
  • MANUAL
    Performed by the hand; used or employed by the hand; held in the hand. Thus, a distress cannot be made of tools in the "manual occupation" of the debtor. -Manual delivery. Delivery of personal property sold, donated, mortgaged, etc., by passing it into the "hand" of the purchaser or trarisferree; More...
  • MANUALIA BENEFICIA
    The daily distributions of meat and drink to the canons and other members of cathedral churches for their present subsistence. Cowell.
  • MANUALIS OBEDIENTIA
    Sworn obedience or submission upon oath. Cowell.
  • MANUCAPTIO
    In old English practice. A writ which lay for a man taken on suspicion of felony, and the like, who could not be admitted to bail by the sheriff, or others having power to let to mainprise. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 249.
  • MANUCAPTORS
    The same as mainpernors, (q.
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