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Man

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

A buman 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.