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Manucaptio

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Manucaptio, 1. Surety; security; bail. 2. A writ allowing a person to be admitted to bail, when the person had been arrested for a felony but could not be admitted to bail by the sheriff, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 977

Manucaptio, a writ that lay for a man taken on suspicion of felony, etc., who cannot be admitted to bail by the sheriff or other shaving power to let to mainprise, Fitz. N.B. 249. See MAINPRIZE.

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