The circular feet of an elephant have soft tissues or cushion pads beneath the manus or pes, which distribute the weight of the animal.
If the woman was not willing to come into ownership of her husband, manus by usus was easily preventable.
He was illiterate and according to preserved documents, he signed via "signum manus".
These fossils consist of a partial manus (hand), a tibia, axial bones, and a foot bone.
His provisions concerning private law were: succession of the wife in manus of the husband.
It was a protocetid with rather primitive traits such as a still quite long neck, a digitigrade manus and a swim-specialized pes.
The chelipeds are quite robust more so than the second to fifth pereiopods and in some the manus is keeled on the outside.
This was probably a hang-over from a time when "dominium" (ownership), "manus" and "potestas" were indistinct and not formally separate.
