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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In old English practice. A writ which lay for a man token on suspicion of felony, and the like, who could not be admitted to ball by the sheriff or others having power to let to mainprise.

Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 249.