Mainprise - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: mainpriseMainpernable
Capable of being admitted to give surety by mainpernors able to be mainprised...
Mainpernor
A surety under the old writ of mainprise for a prisoners appearance in court at a day...
Mainprise
A writ directed to the sheriff commanding him to take sureties called mainpernors for the prisoners appearance and to let him go at large This writ is now obsolete...
Mainpernor
Mainpernor [fr. main, Fr., hand, and preneur taker]. See MAINPRIZE.Mainpernor, 1. A surety for a prisoner's appearance; one who gives main prise for another. 2. A form of bail taken under a writ of mainprise, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 964....
Manucaptio
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. 977Manucaptio, 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....
Replevy, or Replevish
Replevy, or Replevish, to let one to mainprise on surety; also to re-deliver goods which have been distrained to their owner, upon his giving pledges in an action of replevin. See last title....
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