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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....


Mainprize

Mainprize [fr. main, Fr., and pris, taken]. The writ of mainprize, manucaptio, was a writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties for a prisoner's appearance, usually called mainpernors, and to set him at large, 3 Bl.Com. 128; Fitz. N.B. 250....


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