Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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MANAGER

MANCOMUNAL

MANAGER. A person chosen or ap pointed to manage, direct, or administer the affairs of another person or of a corporation or company. MANAGERS OP A CONFERENCE. Members of the houses of parliament ap pointed to represent each house at a confer ence between the two houses. It is an an cient rule that the number of commons named for a conference should be double those of the lords. May, Parl. Fr. c. 16. MANAGING AGENT. A person who is invested with general power, involving the exercise of judgment and discretion, as distinguished from an ordinary agent or em ploye, who acts in an inferior capacity, and under the direction and control of superior authority, both in regard to the extent of the work and the manner of executing the same. 19 Hun, 408. MANAGING OWNER OP SHIP. The managing owner of a ship is one of sev eral co-owners, to whom the others, or those of them who join in the adventure, have delegated the management of the ship. He has authority to do all things usual and nec essary in the management of the ship and the delivery of the cargo, to enable her to prosecute her voyage and earn freight, with the right to appoint an agent for the pur pose. 6 Q. B. Div. 93; Sweet. MANAGIITM. A mansion-house or dwelling-place. Cowell. MANAS MEDIAE. Men of a mean con dition, or of the lowest degree. MANBOTE. In Saxon law. A com pensation or recompense for homicide, par ticularly due to the lord for killing his man or vassal, the amount of which was regulated by that of the were. MANGA, MANCTJS, or MANCUSA. A square piece of gold coin, commonly valued at thirty pence. Cowell. MANCEPS. In Roman law. A pur chaser; one who took the article sold in his hand; a formality observed in certain sales. Calvin. A farmer of the public taxes. MANCHE-PRESENT. A bribe; a pres ent from the donor's own hand. MANCIPARE. In Roman law. To sell, alienate, or make over to another; to sell with certain formalities; to sell a person; one of the forms observed in the process of eman cipation.

MANCIPATE. To enslave; to bind; to tie. MANCIPATIO. In Roman law. A cer tain ceremony or formal process anciently re quired to be performed, to perfect the sale or conveyance of res mancipi, (land, houses, slaves, horses, or cattle.) The parties were present, (vendor and vendee,) with five wit nesses and a person called "libripens," who held a balance or scales. A set form of words was repeated on either side, indicative of transfer of ownership, and certain prescribed gestures performed, and the vendee then struck the scales with a piece of copper, thereby symbolizing the payment, or weighing out, of the stipulated price. The ceremony of mancipatio was used, in later times, in one of the forms of making a will. The testator acted as vendor, and the heir (or families emptor) as purchaser, the latter symbolically buying the whole estate, or succession, of the former. The ceremony was also used by a father in making a ficti tious sale of his son, which sale, when three times repeated, effectuated the emancipation of the son. MANCIPI RES. In Roman law. Cer tain classes of things which could not be aliened or transferred except by means of a certain formal ceremony of conveyance called "mancipatio," (q. v.) These included land, houses, slaves, horses, and cattle. All other things were called "res nee mancipi." The distinction was abolished by Justinian. The distinction corresponded as nearly as may be to the early distinction of English law into real and personal property; res mancipi being objects of a military or agricultural character, and res nee mancipi being all other subjects of property. Like personal estate, res nee man cipi were not originally either valuable in te or valued. Brown. MANCIPIUM. In Roman law. The momentary condition in which nfllius, etc., might be when in course of emancipation from the potestas, and before that emancipation was absolutely complete. The condition was not like the dominica potestas over slaves, but slaves are frequently called "mancipia" in the non-legal Roman authors. Brown. MANCIPLE. A clerk of the kitchen, or caterer, especially in colleges. Cowell. MANCOMUNAL. In Spanish law. An obligation is said to be tnancomunal when one person assumes the contract or debt of

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