MAINOUR, MANOUR, or MEINOUR, (from the
French manier, i. e. manu tractare), in a legal sense
denotes the thing that a thief taketh away or stealeth:
As to be taken with the mainour, (Pl. Cor. fol. 179.)
is to be taken with the thing stolen about him: And
again (fol. 194.) it was presented, that a thief was deli-
vered to the sheriff or viscount, together with the mai-
nour: And again, (fol. 186.) if a man be indicted,
that he feloniously stole the goods of another, where,
in truth, they are his own goods, and the goods he
brought into the court as the mainour; and if it be de-
manded of him, what he faith to the goods, and he
disclaim them; though he be acquitted of the felony,
he shall lose the goods: And again, (fol. 149.) if the
defendant were taken with the manour, and the manour
be carried to the court, they, in ancient times would
arraign him upon the manour, without any appeal or
indictment. Covel. See Blackst. Comment. Vol. III.
71. Vol. IV. 303.