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Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
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In jurisprudence, as in the vernacular, may include all human beings, as in the expression, offences against man; homicide is taking the life of man; manslaughter, &c. Or it but excluding females. Or it may be restricted to adult males. Man, as used in Gantt's Dig. § 7, regulating descent of property, " when any man shall die leaving minor children and no widow," includes a woman; and the statute applies, when a woman dies, leaving a minor child and no husband.
Smith v. Allen, 31 Ark. 268. 2.
In feudal law, man is used in the sense of vassal. Man, Isle of. An island in the Irish Sea, off the coasts of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire. It was formerly a distinct territory; but by 5 Geo. III. ch. 26, 39, the whole island and all its dependencies, except the landed property and some other rights belonging to the Athol family, were inalienably vested in the crown, and subjected to the regulations of the British excise and customs.
Wharton.