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  • MANURE
    In old English law. To occupy; to use or cultivate; to have in manual occupation; to bestow manual labor upon. Cowell.
  • MANUS
    Lat. A hand. In the civil law, this word signified power, control, authority, the right of physical coercion, and was often used as synonymous with "potestas." In old English law, it signified an oath or the person taking an oath; a compurgator. -Manns mortua. A dead hand; mortmain. Spelman.
  • MANUSCRIPT
    A writing; a paper written with the hand; a writing that has not been printed. Parton v. Prang, 18 Fed. Cas. 1275: Leon Loan A Abstract Co. v. Equalization Board, 86 Iowa, 127, 53 N. W. 94, 17 L. R. A. 199, 41 Am. St Rep. 486.
  • MANUTENENTIA
    The old writ of maintenance. Reg. Orig. 182.
  • MANWORTH
    In old English law. The price or value of a man's life or head. Co-well.
  • MANY
    This term denotes a multitude, not merely a number greater than that denoted by the word "few.". Louisville A N. R. Co. v. Hall, 87 Ala. 708, 6 South. 277, 4 L. R. A. 710, 13 Am. St Rep. 84. But compare Hilton Bridge Const Co. v. Foster, 26 Misc. More...
  • MANZIE
    In old Scotch law. Mayhem; mutilation of the body of a person. Skene.
  • MAP
    A representation of the earth's surface, or of some portion of it, showing the relative position of the parts represented, usually on a flat surface. Webster. "A map is but a transcript of the region which it portrays, narrowed In compass so as to facilitate an understanding of the original." More...
  • MARA
    In old records. A mere or moor; a lake, pool, or pond; a bog or marsh that cannot be drained. Cowell; Blount; Spelman.
  • MARAUDER
    A marauder is defined in the law to be one who, while employed in the army as a soldier, commits larceny or robbery in the neighborhood of the camp, or while wandering away from the army. But in the modern and metaphorical sense of the word, as now sometimes used More...
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