Mainour
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
or MEINOUR. An old term for a thing stolen; spoken particularly of such thing when the thief is caught having it upon him, or, as it were, in his hand. To be " taken with the mainour," meant to be caught with the subject of larceny in one's possession, in manu.
Cowel.