Mainpernor
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In old practic. A surety for the appearance of a person under arrest, wlio is delivered out of custody into the hands of his bail. ‘“Mainpernors” differ from “bail” in that a man’s bail may imprison or surrender him up before the stipulated day of appearance; mainpernors can do neither, but are barely sureties for his appearance at theday., Bail are only sureties that the party be answerable for the special matter for which they stipulate; mainpernors are bound to produce him to answer all charges whatsoever.
3 Bl. Comm, 128.
Other distinctions are made in the old books. See Cowell,