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  • 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.
  • 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.
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