Handhabend
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In Saxon law. One having a thing in his hand; that is, a thief found having the stolen goods in his possession,— latro manifestus of the civil law. See Laws Hen. I. c.
59; Laws Athelstane, § 6; Fleta, lib. 1, c. 38, § 1; Britt. p.
72; Du Cange. Jurisdiction to try such thief.
Id.