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  • 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.
  • 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.
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