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Manucapere

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Lat. [from manus, hand, and capere, to take.] In old law and practice. To become surety; to offer one's self as a surety to redeem another from imprisonment, and to have him in court at an appointed day.

Spelman.