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MANUPES

MARCHETA

MANUPES. In old English law. A foot of full and legal measure. MANUPRETIUM. Lat In Roman law. The hire or wages of labor; compensation for labor or services performed. See Mack eld. Rom. Law, | 413. MANURABLE. In old English law. Capable of being had or held in hand; capa ble of manual occupation; capable of being cultivated; capable of being touched; tan gible; corporeal. Hale, Anal. § 24. MANURE. In old English law. To oc cupy; to use or cultivate; to have in man ual occupation; to bestow manual labor upon. Cowell. MANUS. Lat A hand. In the civil law, this woijd signified pow er, control, authority, the right of physical coercion, and was often used as synonymous with "potesta8." In old English law, it signified an oath or the person taking an oath; a compur gator. —Manns mortna. A dead hand; mortmain. Spelman. MANUSCRIPT. A writing; a paper written with the hand; a writing that has not been printed. Parton v. Prang, 18 Fed. Cas. 1275; Leon Loan & Abstract Co. v. Equalization Board, 86 Iowa, 127, 53 N. W. 94, 17 L. R. A. 199, 41 Am. St. Rep. 486. MANUTENENTIA. The old writ of maintenance. Reg. Orig. 182. MANWORTH. In old English law. The price or value of a man's life or head. Co well. MANY. This term denotes a multitude, not merely a number greater than that de noted by the word "few." Louisville & N. R. Co. v. Hall, 87 Ala. 708, 6 South. 277, 4 L. R. A. 710, 13 Am. St Rep. 84. But com pare Hilton Bridge Const Co. v. Foster, 26 Misc. Rep. 338, 57 N. Y. Supp. 140, holding that three persons may be "many." MANZIE. In old Scotch law. Mayhem; mutilation of the body of a person. Skene. MAP. A representation of the earth's surface, or of some portion of it, showing the relative position of the parts represent ed, usually on a flat surface. Webster. "A map is but a transcript of the region which it portrays, narrowed in compass so as to facilitate an understanding of the original." Banker v. Caldwell, 3 Minn. 103 (Gil. 55). MARA. In old records. A mere or moor; a lake, pool, or pond; a bog or

marsh that cannot be drained. Cowell*, Blount; Spelman. MARAUDER. "A marauder Is defined In the law to be 'one who, while employed m the army as a soldier, commits larceny or robbery in the neighborhood of the camp, or while wandering away from the army.' But in the modern and metaphorical sense of the word, as now sometimes used in common speech, it seems to be applied to a class of persons who are not a part of any regular army, and are not answerable to any military discipline, but who are mere lawless banditti, engaged in plundering, robbery, murder, and all conceivable crimes." Curry v. Collins, 37 Mo. 328. The name of a piece of money formerly coined at Hamburg. Its value was thirty-five cents. MARCA. A mark; a coin of the value of 13s. 4d. Spelman. MARCATUS. The rent of a mark by the year anciently reserved in leases, etc. In Scotch law. A boundary line or border. Bell. The word is also used in composition; as march-dike, march-stone. In French mercantile law. Damaged goods. MARCHERS. In old English law. No blemen who lived on the marshes of Wales or Scotland, and who, according to Camden, had their private laws, as if they had been petty kings; which were abolished by the statute 27 Hen. VIII. c. 26. Called also "lords marchers." Cowell. An old English term for boundaries or frontiers, particularly the boundaries and limits between England and Wales, or between England and Scotland, or the borders of the dominions of the crown, or the boundaries of properties in Scotland. Mozley & Whitley. — Marches, court of. An abolished tribunal in Wales, where pleas of debt or damages, not above the value of £50, were tried and deter mined. Cro. Car. 384. MARCHETA. In old Scotch law. A custom for the lord of a fee to lie the first night with the bride of his tenant Abol ished by Malcolm III. Spelman; 2 Bl. Comm. 83. A fine paid by the tenant for the remission of such right, originally a mark or half a mark of silver. Spelman. In old English law. A fine paid for leave to marry, or to bestow a daughter in marriage. CowelL MARC-BANCO. MARCH. MARCHANDISES AVARIEES. MARCHES.