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Man

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

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 of straw. See Men of Straw.