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Home Dictionary Name: man trapMan-trap
Man-trap, engines to catch trespassers, unlawful, unless set in a dwelling-house for defence between the Persons Act, 1861 (English) (24 & 25 25Vict. c. 100), s. 31....
Man, Isle of
Man, Isle of (Mona), in the Irish Sea, off the coast of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, granted by Henry the Fourth and James the First to members of the Stanley family, whose successor in the female line, the Duke of Athol, sold it to the Crown for 70,000l., being about ten years' purchase of the annual revenue, by the Isle of Man Purchase Act, 1765 (5 Geo. 3, c. 26).The Isle of Man is not subject to British Acts of Parliament unless expressly named therein (as in the Customs Acts, for the purposes of which, by s. 277 of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, it is deemed part of the United Kingdom), being legislated for by its own Parliament, called the House of Keys, but an Isle of Man (Customs) Act, is passed every year by the Imperial Parliament....
Straw, Man of
Straw, Man of, a man of no substance. A transfer of shares, in a company, to such a man is good, subject to its regulations, so as to relieve the transferor from liability to pay calls upon the shares, if the transferee be sui juris, and there be no resulting trust for the transferor [see De Pass's case, (1859) 4 De G. & J. 544], and unless the Stannaries Act, 1869, s. 35, applies; and see CONTRIBUTORY. Likewise the assignee o a lease may escape liability on the covenants after assignment by 'assigning over' to a man of straw....
dead man's statute
dead man's statute : a law barring the testimony of a person with an interest in an estate regarding any conversation with or any event taking place in the presence of the decedent called also dead man act dead man's act ...
Shire-man, or Seyre-man
Shire-man, or Seyre-man, anciently judge of the county, by whom trials for land, etc., were determined before the conquest....
man made
Not of natural origin prepared or made by humans artificial of substances made by chemical reaction rather than extracted from a natural source as man made fibers man made gems Opposed to natural...
manned
Having a crew of vehicles as a manned earth satellite was considered a necessary research step to minimize casualties the military used cruise missiles rather than manned aircraft for the bombardment Opposite of unmanned...
man sized
Calling for manly attributes as a man sized job...
Dead man's part
Dead man's part, the remainder of an intestate's movables, besides that which of right belonged to his wife and children. This was formerly made use of in masses for the soul of the deceased; subsequently, the administrators applied it to their own use and benefit, until the 1 Jac. 2, c. 17, subjected it to distribution among the next of kin. In Scotland the 'dead's part' of a man's personalty is that part of which he is entitled to dispose by will. See REASONABLE PARTS....
Isle of man
Isle of man. See MAN, ISLE OF....
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