MANUAL

Performed by the hand; used ·Or employed by tJ\e hanq.; held in the hand. Thus,· a distre cannot be made of tools in ·the "manual occupation" of the debtor. -Manual delivery. Delivery of personal.property sold, donated, mortgaged, etc., by pa mg it into the "hand" of the purchaser or transfer ree, that is, by an actual and corporeal ·change of po e ion.-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 effectivene chiefly upon personal muscular ex-. ertion rather than upon skill, intelligence, or • adroitne . See Lew Jim v. U. S., 66 Fed. 954, 14 C. C. A. 281; Martin v. Wake field, 42 Minn. 176, 43 N. W 966, 6 L. R. A. 362; Breault v. Archambault, 64 Minn. 420, 67 N. W. 348, 5S Am. St. Rep. 545. [s. 763]