Mainpernors
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In English law
Those persons to whom a man is delivered out of custody or prison, on their becoming bound for his appearance. Mainpernors differ from bail. A man's bail may imprison or surrender him up before the stipulated day of appearance; mainpernors can do neither, but are merely sureties for his appearance at the day. Bail are only sureties that the party be answerable for all the special matter for which they stipulate; mainpernors are bound to produce him to answer all charges whatsoever.
6 Mod. 231; 7 Mod. 77, 85, 98; 3 Bl. Coram. 128.
See Dane, Abr.