Black's Law Dictionary

In criminal law. The uniawful killing of another without malice, either express or implied; which may be either voluntarily, upon a sudden heat, or involuntarily, but in the commis

In old English law. A mansion or house. Spelman. —Mansum capitale. The manor-house or lord's court. Paroch. Antiq. 150.

A word sometimes used synonymously with "kidnapping," (3. v.)

Lat Tame; as though accustomed to come to the hand. 2 BL Comm. 39L

The manor-house or lord's court. Paroch. Antiq. 150.

In old records. A long robe or mantle.

In Saxon law. A horsestealer.

To pick pockets.

Engines to catch trespassers, now unlawful uniess set in a dwelling-house for defense between sunset and sunrise. 24 & 25 Viet c. 100, § 31.

The same as mainpernors, (q. v.)

Performed by the hand; used or employed by the hand ; held in the hand. Thus, a distress cannot be made of tools in the "manual occupation" of the debtor. —Manual delivery. Deliver

Delivery of personal property sold, donated, mortgaged, etc., by passing it into the "hand" of the purchaser or transferree, that is, by an actual and corporeal change of possessio

The manual gift, that is, the giving of corporeal movable effects, accompanied by a real delivery, is not subject to any formality. Civil Code La. art. 1539.

The dally distributions of meat and drink to the canons and other members of cathedral churches for their present subsistence. Cowell.

Sworn obedience or submission upon oath. Cowell.

Labor performed by hand or by the exercise of physical force, with or without the aid of tools and of horses or other beasts of burden, but depending for its effectiveness chiefly

Lat. With a short hand. A term used in the civll law. signifying shortly; directly; by the shortest course; without circuity.

In old English practice. A writ which lay for a man token on suspicion of felony, and the like, who could not be admitted to ball by the sheriff or others having power to let to ma

A building, the main or principal design or use of which is to be a place for producing articles as products of labor; not merely a place where something may be made by hand or mac

n. In patent law. Any useful product made directly by human labor or by tHe aid of machinery directed and controlled by human power, and either from raw materials or from materials

One who is engaged in the business of working raw materials into wares suitable for use. People v. New York Floating Dry Dock Co., 63 How. Prae. (N. Y.) 453. See Manufacture.

A corporation engaged in the production of some article, thing, or object, by skill or labar, out of raw material, or from matter which has already been subjected to artificial for

Lat. With strong hand. A term used in old writs of trespass. Manu forti et cum multitudine gentium, with strong hand and multitude of people. Reg. Orig. 183.

Lat. With a long hand. A term used in the civil law, signifying indirectly or circuitously. Calvin.

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

Co. Litt. 137. To manumit is the same as to place beyond hand and power.

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 (omanian) ni

Lat. Cattle or implements of husbandry ; also stolen goods taken from a thief caught in the fact. Cowell.

In old English law. A foot of full and legal measure,

Lat In Roman law. The hire or wages of labor; compensation for labor or services performed. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, { 413.

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

In old English law. To occupy; to use or cultivate; to have in manual occupation; to bestow manual labor upon. Cowell.

Lat. A hand. In the civil law, this wod signified power, control, authority, the right of physical coercion, and was often used as synonymous with "potestas." In old English law, i

A writing; a paper written with the hand; a writing that has not been printed. Parton v. Prang, 18 Fed. Cas. 1275; Leon Loan & Abstract Co. v. Equalization Board, 86 Iowa, 127, 53

A dead hand; mortmain. Spelman.

The old writ of maintenance. Reg. Orig. 182.

In old English law. The price or value of a man's life or head. Cowell.

This term denotes a multitude, not merely a number greater than that denoted by the word "few." Louisville & N. R. Co., v. Hall, 87 Ala. 708, 6 South. 277, 4 In R. A. 710, 13 Am. S

In old Scotch law. Mayhem; mutilation of the body of a person. Skene.

A representation of the earth's surface or of some portion of it, showing the relative position of the parts represented, usually on a flat surface. Webster. "A map is but a transc

In old records. A mere or moor; a lake, pool or pond; a bog or marsh that cannot be drained. Cowell'; Blount; Speiman.

A marauder ls defined in the law to be 'one who, while employed in the army as a soldier, commits larceny or robbery in the neighborhood of the camp or whlle wandering away from th

A mark; a coin of the value of 13s. 4d. Speiman.

The rent of a mark by the year anciently reserved in leases, etc.

The name of a picee of money formerly ceined at Hamburg. Its value was thirty-five cents.

In Scotch law. A boundary line or border. Bell. The word is also used in composition; as march-dike, march-stone.

In French mercantile law. Damaged goods.

In old English law. Noblemen who lived on the marshes of Wales or Scotland, and who, acoording to Camden, had their private laws, as if they had been petty kings; which were abolis

An old English term for boundaries or frontiers, particularly the boundaries and limits between England and Wales or between England and Scotland or the barders of the dominions of

An abolished tribunal in Wales, where pleas of debt or damages, not above the value of f5O, were tried and determined. Cro. Car. 384.

In old Scotch law. A custom for the lord of a fee to lie the first night with the bride of his tenant Abolished by Malcolm III. Spelman; 2 Bl. Comm. 83. A fine paid by the tenant f

A dignity in a woman answerable to that of marquis in a man, conferred either by creation or by marriage with a marquis. Wharton.

Lat. The sea. —Mare clausum. The sea closed: that is, not open or free. The title of Semen's great work, intended as an answer to the Mare Liberum of Grotius; in which he undertake

The sea closed: that is, not open or free. The title of Semen's great work, intended as an answer to the Mare Liberum of Grotius; in which he undertakes to prove the sea to be capa

The sea free. The title of a work written by Grotius against the Portuguese claim to an exclusive trade to the Indies, through the South Atlantic and Indian oceans; showing that th

L. Fr. Marshal; a high officer of the royal household. Britt, fol. lb.

In old English law. A marshal; a master of the stables; an officer of the exchequer; a military officer of high rank, having powers and duties simllar to those of a constable. Du C

Marshy ground overflowed by the sea or great rivers. Co. Litt 5.

1. The edge or border; the edge of a body of water where it meets the land. As applied to a boundary line of land, the "margin" of a river, creek or other water-course means the ce

In Scotch law. A note inserted on the margin of a deed, embodying either some clause which was omitted in transcribing or some change in the agreement of the parties. Bell. An abst

An ancient word which signified a mariner or seaman. In England, marinarius capitaneus was the admiral or warden of the ports.

Naval; relating or pertaining to the sea; transacted at sea; doing duty of servico on the sea. This is also a general name for the navy of a kingdom or state; as also the whole eco

That portion of the main or open sea, adjacent to the shores of a given country, over which the jurisdiction of its municipal laws and local authorities extends; defined by interna

By statutes of several states this term is applied to carriers plying upon the ocean, arms of the sea, the Great Lakes, and other navigable waters within the jurisdiction of the Un

One relating to maritime affairs, shipping, navigation, marine insurance, affreightment, maritime loans, or other business to be done upon the sea or in connection with navigation.

A body of soldiers enlisted and equipped for service on board vessels of war; also the naval forces of the nation. U. S. v. Dunn, 120 U. S. 249 , 7 Sup. Ch 507, 30 L. Ed. 607. —Mar

A contract whereby, for a consideration stipulated to be paid by one interested in a ship, freight, or cargo, subject to the risks of marine navigation, another undertakes to indem

Interest, allowed to be stipulated for at an extraordinary rate, for the use and risk of money loaned on respondentia and bottomry bands.

A measure of distance commonly employed at sea, being equal to one-twentieth part of a degree of latitude, or three geographical or nautical miles. See Rockland, etc., S. Co., v. F

A seaman or sailor; one engaged in navigating vessels upon the sea.

The perils of the sea; the perils necessarily incident to navigation.

A body of infantry soldiers, trained to serve on board of vessels of war when in commission and to fight in naval engagements.

In English law. A charitable instifution for the purpose of apprenticing hoys to the naval service, etc., incorporated by 12 Geo. Ill, c. 67.

An officer in Scotland, who, with the lord high constable, possessed a supreme itinerant jurisdiction in all crimes committed within a certain space of the court, wherever it might

A marshy or fenny ground. Co. Litt. 5a.

7 Coke, 13. The connection of male and female is by the law of nature.

An obsolete writ for the tenant in frank-marriage to recover lands, etc., of which he was deforced.

The portion which is given with a daughter in marriage. Also the power which the lord or guardian in chivalry had of disposing of hls infant ward in matrimony. —Maritagium habere.

Co. Litt. 21. A marriage portion is either free or bound to service; it is called "frank-marriage" when the giver wills that land thus given be exempt from all secular service.

To have the free disposal of an heiress in marriage.

Relating to or connected with, the status of marriage; pertaining to a husband; incident to a husband. —Marital coercion. Coercion of the wife by the husband. —Marital portion. In

Coercion of the wife by the husband.

In Louisiana. The name given to that part of a deceased husband's estate to which the widow is entitled. Civ. Code La. art. 55 ;, Abercrombie v. Caffray, 3 Mart. N. S. (La.) 1.

See Marital.

In old English law. The emolument or revenue coming to the king from the sea, which the sheriffs anciently collected, but which was afterwards granted to the admiral. Spelman.

In old English law. Marine increases. Lands gained from the sea. Hale, de Jure Mar. pt 1, c. 4.

Pertaining to the sea or ocean or the navigation thereof; or to commerce conducted by navigation of the sea or (in America) of the great lakes and rivers. It is nearly equivalent t

A cause of action originating on the high seas, or growing out of a maritime contract. 1 Kent, Comm. 367, et seq.

A contract whose subject-matter has relation to the navigation of the seas or to trade or commerce to be conducted by navigation or to be done upon the sea or in ports. Over such c

A court exercising jurisdiction in maritime causes; one which possesses the powers and jurisdiction of a court of admiralty.

An expression equivalent to marine interest, (q. v.)

Jurisdiction in maritime causes; such jurisdiction as belongs to a court of admiralty on the instance side.

That system of law which particularly relates to commerce and navigation, to business transacted at sea or relating to navigation, to ships and shipping, to seamen, to the transpor

A lien arising out of damage done by a ship in the course of navigation, as by collision, which attaches to the vessel and freight, and is to be enforced by an action in rem in the

A contract or agreement by which one, who is the lender, lends to another, who is the borrower, a certain sum of money, upon condition that if the thing upon which the loan has bee

A term used by French writers to signify any profit derived from a maritime loan.

In admiralty law. A service rendered upon the high seas or a navigable river, and which has some relation to commerce or navigation, —some connection with a vessel employed in trad

of the officers and mariners of the British navy, who are governed by express and permanent laws, or the articles of the navy, established by act of parliament. Defined under Marit

A tort committed upon the high seas, or upon a navigable river or other navigable water, and hence (ailing within the jurisdiction of a court of admiralty. The term is never applie

Lat. A husband; a married man. Calvin.