Writ of manucaption, or mainprise. A writ which lay for one who, being taken and imprisoned on a charge of felony, had offered bail, which had been refused; requiring the sheriff to discharge him on his finding sufllcient mainpernors or bail. Reg. Orig. 268b; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 249, G.
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