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  • MANDATO
    In Spanish law. The contract of mandate. Eseriche.
  • MANDATO, PANES DE
    Loaves of bread given to the poor upon Maundy Thurs day.
  • MANDATOR
    The person employing another to perform a mandate.
  • MANDATORY
    Containing a command; preceptive; imperative; peremptory. A provision in a statute is mandatory when disobedience to it will make the act done under the statute absolutely void; if the provision Is such that disregard of It will constitute an Irregularity, but one not necessarily fatal, It Is said to be More...
  • MANDATUM
    Lat In the civil law. The contract of mandate, (q. v.)
  • MANDAVI BALLIVO
    (I have commanded or made my mandate to the bailiff.) In English practice. The return made by a sheriff, where the bailiff of a liberty has the execution of a writ, that he has commanded the bailiff to execute it 1 Tidd, Pr. 309 ; 2 Tidd, Pr. 1025.
  • MANENTES
    Tenants, Obsolete, Cowell.
  • MANERA
    In Spanish law. Manner or mode. Las Partidas, pt 4, tit 4, 1. 2.
  • MANERIUM
    In old English law. A manor. Manerinm dicitnr a manendo, secun-dnm excellentiam, cedes magna, ftxa, et stabills. Co. Litt 58. A manor is so called from manendo, according to its excellence, a seat great fixed, and firm.
  • MANGONARE
    In old English law. To buy In a market
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