KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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MANUNG

MANU FORTI

hand," but this definition is too narrow for its present use. Its meaning has expanded as workmanship and art have advanced, so that now nearly all artificial products of hu man industry, nearly all such materials as have acquired changed conditions or new and specific combinations, whether from the direct action of the human hand, from chem ical processes devised and directed by hu man skill, or by the employment of machin ery, are now commonly designated as "man ufactured." Carlin v. Western Assur. Co., 57 Md. 526, 40 Am. Rep. 440; Evening Jour nal Ass'n v. State Board of Assessors, 47 N. J. Law, 36, 54 Am. Rep. 114; Attorney General v. Lorman, 59 Mich. 157, 26 N. W. 311, 60 Am. Rep. 287; Kidd v. Pearson, 128 U. S. 1, 9 Sup. Ct. 6, 32 L. Ed. 346. In patent law. Any useful product made directly by human labor, or by tfle aid of machinery directed and controlled by human power, and either from raw materials, or from materials work ed up into a new form. Also the process by which such products are made or fashioned. — Domestic manufactures. This term in a state statute is used, generally, of manufactures within its jurisdiction. Com. v. Giltinan, 64 Pa. 100. One who is engag ed in the business of working raw materi als into wares suitable for use. People v. New York Floating Dry Dock Co., 63 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 453. See MANTJFACTUBE. MANUFACTURING CORPORATION. A corporation engaged in the production of some article, thing, or object, by skill or labor, out of raw material, or from matter which has already been subjected to arti ficial forces, or to which something has been added to change its natural condition. Peo ple v. Knickerbocker Ice Co., 99 N. Y. 181, 1 N. E. 669. The term does not include a mining corporation. Byers v. Franklin Coal Co., 106 Mass. 135. The act of liberating a slave from bondage and giving him free dom. In a wider sense, releasing or deliv ering one person from the power or control of another. See Fenwick v. Chapman, 9 Pet. 472, 9 L. Ed. 193; State v. Prall, 1 N. J. Law, 4. Manumittere idem est quod estra manum vel potestatem ponere. Co. Litt. 137. To manumit is the same as to place beyond hand and power. In old Eng lish law. The district within the jurisdic tion of a reeve, apparently so called from his power to exercise therein one of his chief functions, viz., to exact (amanian) all fines. MANUFACTURE, n. MANUFACTURER. MANUMISSION. MANUNG, or MONUNG.

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shortly;

directly;

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shortest

course; without circuity. MANU FORTI.

Lat With strong hand.

A term used in old writs of trespass.

Manu

forti with strong hand and multitude of- people. Reg. Orig. 183. MANU LONGA. Lat. With a long hand. A term used in the civil law, signifying iri- •directly or circuitously. Calvin. Lat. Cattle or imple ments of husbandry; also stolen goods tak en from a thief caught in the fact Cowell. MANU AX. 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. Delivery of personal property sold, donated, mortgaged, etc., by pass ing it into the "hand" of the purchaser or transferree, that is, by an actual and corporeal change of possession.— Manual gift. 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.— Manual labor. 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 upon personal muscular ex ertion rather than upon skill, intelligence, or adroitness. See Lew Jim v. U. S., 66 Fed. 954, 14 C. C. A. 281; Martin v. Wakefield, 42 Minn. 176, 43 N. W 966, 6 L. R. A. 362; Breault v. Archambault, 64 Minn. 420, 67 N. W. 348, 58 Am. St Rep. 545. The daily distributions of meat and drink to the can ons and other members of cathedral church es for their present subsistence. Cowell. Sworn obedience or submission upon oath. Cowell. MANUCAPTIO. In old English prac tice. A writ which lay for a man taken on suspicion of felony, and the like, who could not be admitted to bail by the sheriff, or others having power to let to mainprise. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 249. 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 some thing may be made by hand or machinery, but what in common understanding is known as a "factory." Halpin v. Insurance Co., 120 N. Y. 73, 23 N. E. 989, 8 L. R. A. 79; Schott v. Harvey, 105 Pa. 227, 51 Am. Rep. 201; Franklin F. Ins. Co. v. Brock, 57 Pa. 82. The primary meaning of this word is "making with the et cum multitudine gentium, MANU OPERA. MANUAXIA BENEFICIA. MANUALIS OBEDLENTIA. MANUCAPTORS. The same as main pernors, (q. v.) MANUFACTORY. MANUFACTURE, v.