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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

In old English prac. tice A writ which lay for a man taken on suspicion of felony, and the like, who could no. be admitted to.bail by the sheriff, or others haying power to let te mainprise.

Fitzh, Nat. Brey. 249.