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  • MALVERSATION
    In French law. This word is applied to all grave and punishable faults committed in the exercise of a charge or commission, (office,) such as corruption, exaction, concussion, larceny. Merl. Repert
  • MAN
    A human being. A person of the male sex. A male of the human species above the age of puberty. In feudal law. A vassal; a tenant or feudatory. The Anglo-Saxon relation of lord and man was originally purely personal, and founded on mutual contract. 1 Spence, Ch. 37. -Man More...
  • MANACLES
    Chains for the hands; shackles.
  • MANAGE
    To conduct; to carry on; to direct the concerns of a business or establishment. Generally applied to affairs that are somewhat complicated and that involve skin and judgment Com. v. Johnson, 144 Pa. 377, 22 Atl. 703; Roberts v. Stote, 26 Fla. 360, 7 South. 861; Ure v. Ure, 185 More...
  • 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.
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