Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

MANDATE

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MANIPULTJS

et stabilis. Co. Litt. 58. A manor is so called from manendo, according to its excel lence, a seat, great, fixed, and firm. MANGONARE. In old English law. To buy in a market MANGONELLUS. A warlike instru ment for casting stones against the walls of a castle. Coweil. MANHOOD. In feudal law. A term de noting the ceremony of doing homage by the vassal to his lord. The formula used was, " Devenio vester homo," I become your man. 2 Bl. Comm. 54. To arrive at manhood means to arrive at twenty-one years of age. 1 Dev. & B. Eq. 585. MANIA. "Mania is that form of insani ty where the mental derangement is accom panied with more or less of excitement. Sometimes the excitement amounts to a fury. The individual in such cases is subject to hal lucinations and illusions. He is impressed with the reality of events which have never occurred, and of things which do not exist, and acts more or less in conformity with his belief in these particulars. The mania may be general, and affect all or most of the op erations of the mind; or it may be partial, and be confined to particular subjects. In the latter case it is generally termed • monoma nia.' " Per Field, J., 2 Abb. (U. S.) 510. MANIA A POTU. A disease induced from the intemperate use of spirituous liq uors ; the same as delirium tremtns. MANIFEST. In maritime law. A sea-letter; a written document required to be carried by merchant vessels, containing an account of the cargo, with other particulars, for the facility of the customs officers. In evidence. That which is clear and re quires no proof; that which is notorious. Manifesta probatione non indigent. 7 Coke, 40. Things manifest do not require proof. MANIFESTO. A formal written decla ration, piomulgated by a prince, or by the executive authority of a state or nation, pro claiming its reasons and motives for declar ing a war, or for any other important inter national action. MANIPULTJS. In canon law. A hand kerchief, which the priest always had in his left band. Blount.

The word may also denote a request or di rection. Thus, a check is a mandate by the drawer to his banker to pay the amount to the transferee or holder of the check. 1 Q. B. Div. 33. In the civil law. The instructions which the emperor addressed to a public function ary, and which were rules for his conduct. These mandates resembled those of the pro consuls, the mandata jurisdictio, and were ordinarily binding on the legates or lieuten ants of the emperor in the imperial provinces, and there they had the authority of the prin cipal edicts. Sav. Dr. Bom. c. 3, § 24, no. 4. MANDATO. In Spanish law. The con tract of mandate. Escriche. MANDATO, PANES DE. Loaves of bread given to the poor upon Maundy Thurs day. MANDATOR. The person employing another to perfoi m a mandate. MANDATORY. Containing a com mand; preceptive; imperative; peremptory. A provision in a statute is mandatory when disobedience to it will make the act done un der the statute absolutely void; if the pro vision is such that disregard of it will con stitute an in egularity, but one not necessa rily fatal, it is said to be directory. So, the mandatory patt of a writ is that which com mands the person to do the act specified. MANDATORY INJUNCTION. In equity practice. An order compelling a de fendant to restore things to the condition in which they were at the time when the plain tiff's complaint was made. 33 Law J Eq. .) MANDAVI BALLIVO. (I have com manded or made my mandate to the bailiff.) In English practice. The return made by a sheriff, where the bailiff of a liberty has the execution of a writ, that he has commanded the bailiff to execute it. 1 Tidd, Pr. 309; 2 Tidd, Pr. 1025. MANENTES". Tenants. Obsolete. Cowell. MANERA. In Spanish law. Manner or mode. Las Partidas, pt. 4, tit. 4,1. 2. MANERIUM. In old English law. A manor. Manerium dicitur a manendo, secun 4um excellentiam, sedes magna, flxa,

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