"Mainprise" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
SE. The dellvery of a person into tbe custody of mainpernors, (q. «.) Also the name of a writ (now obsolete) command-ing the sheriff to take the security of main-pernors and set the party at liberty
To suffer to go at large, on his finding sureties, or
mainpernors, for his appearance at a day; -- said of a prisoner.
Deliverance of a prisoner on security for his appearance
at a day.
A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take
sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let
him go at large. This writ is now obsolete.
The Road Not TakenTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
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writ of man-ucaption, or mainprise. A writ which lay for one who, being taken and Imprisoned on a charge of …
Read the complete definitionA surety, under the old writ of mainprise, for a prisoner's appearance in court at a day.
Read the complete definitionIn English law. A writ dlrected to the sherlff, (either generally, wben any man ls Imprisoned for a bailable offense …
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