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  • MANUFACTORY
    A building, the main or principal design or use of which is to be a place for producing articles as products of labor; not merely a place where something may be made by hand or machinery, but what in common understanding is known as a "factory." Halpln v. Insurance Co., More...
  • MANUFACTURE
    v. The primary meaning of this word is "making with the hand," but this definition is too narrow for its present use. Its meaning has expanded as workmanship and art have advanced, so that now nearly all artificial products of human industry, nearly all such materials as have acquired changed More...
  • MANUFACTURE
    n. In patent law. Any useful product made directly by human labor, or by the aid of machinery directed and controlled by human power, and either from raw materials, or from materials worked up into a new form. Also the process by which such products are made or fashioned. -Domestio More...
  • MANUFACTURER
    One who is engaged in the business of working raw materials into wares suitable for use. People v. New York Floating Dry Dock Co., 63 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 453. See MANUFACTURE.
  • MANUFACTURING CORPORATION
    A corporation engaged in the production of some article, thing, or object, by skill or labor, out of raw material, or from matter which has already been subjected to artificial forces, or to. which something has been added to change its natural condition. People v. Knickerbocker Ice Co., 99 N. More...
  • MANUMISSION
    The act of liberating a slave from bondage and giving him freedom. In a wider sense, releasing or delivering one person from the power or control of another. See Fenwick v. Chapman, 9 Pet 472, 9 L. Ed. 193; State v. Prall, 1 N. J. Law, 4. Manumittere idem est More...
  • MANUNG, OR MONUNG
    In old English law. The district within the jurisdiction of a reeve, apparently so called from his power to exercise therein one of his chief functions, viz., to exact (amanian) all fines.
  • MANUPES
    In old English law. A foot of fnll and legal measure.
  • MANUPRETIUM
    Lat. In Roman law. The hire or wages of labor; compensation for labor or services performed. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, s 413.
  • MANURABLE
    In old English law. Capable of being had or held In hand; capable of manual occupation; capable of being cultivated; capable of being touched; tangible; corporeal. Hale, Anal. $ 24.
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