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Mankind

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Persons of the male sex; the human species.

St. 25 Hen. VIII., c.

6, makes it felony to commit sodomy with mankind or beast. Females as well as males are included under the term "mankind."

Fortescue, 91; Bac. Abr. "Sodomy."