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  • MANAGIUM
    A mansion-house or dwelling-place. Cowell.
  • MANAS MEDIAE
    Men of a mean condition, or of the lowest degree.
  • MANBOTE
    In Saxon law. A compensation or recompense for homicide, particularly due to the lord for killing his man or vassal, the amount of which was regulated by that of the were.
  • MANCA, MANCUS, OR MANCUSA
    A square piece of gold coin, commonly valued at thirty pence. Cowell.
  • MANCEPS
    Lat. In Roman law. A purchaser ; one who took the article sold in his hand; a formality observed in certain sales. Calvin. A farmer of the public taxes.
  • MANCHE-PRESENT
    A bribe; a present from the donor's own hand.
  • MANCIPARE
    Lat. In Roman law. To sell, alienate, or make over to another; to sell with certain formalities; to sell a person; one of the forms observed in the process of emancipation.
  • MANCIPATE
    To enslave; to bind; to tie.
  • MANCIPATIO
    Lat. In Roman law. A certain ceremony or formal process anciently required to be performed, to perfect the sale or conveyance of res mancipi, (land, houses, slaves, horses, or cattle.) The parties were present (vendor and vendee,) with five witnesses and a person called "libripens," who held a balance or More...
  • MANCIPI RES
    Lat In Roman law. Certain classes of things which could not be aliened or transferred except by means of a certain formal ceremony of conveyance called "mancipatio** (q. v.) These included land, houses, slaves, horses, and cattle. All other things were called "res nec mancipi." The distinction was abolished by More...
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