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De manucaptione

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

Definition:
A writ to compel the sheriff to free a prisoner and take mainpernours. See 3 Bl. Comm. 128.
De Manucaptione

Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

Definition:
Writ of manucaption. or mainprise. A writ which lay for one who, being token and imprisoned on a charge of felony, had offered bali, which had been refused; requiring the sheriff to discharge him on his finding sufficient mainpernors Or bail. Reg. Orig. 268b; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 249, G.