Extracted From:
  A LAW DICTIONARY ..., SIXTH EDITION, 1856
  by John Bouvier, CHILDS & PETERSON, PHILADELPHIA

MAN. A human being. This definition includes not only the adult male sex of the
human species, but women and children; examples: "of offences against man, some
are more immediately against the king, other's more immediately against the
subject." Hawk. P. C. book 1, c. 2, s. 1. Offences against the life of man come
under the general name of homicide, which in our law signifies the killing of a
man by a man." Id. book 1, c. 8, s. 2. 
   In a more confined sense, man means a person of the male sex; and sometimes
it signifies a male of the human species above the age of puberty.... It was
considered in the civil or Roman law, that although man and person are
synonymous in grammar, they had a different acceptation in law; all persons were
men, but all men, for example, slaves, were not persons, but things....

==== SCROOTS Mailing List ====