MANOUR, or Meineur, (from the French manier, i.e. manu trahere), in a legal sense denotes the thing that a thief taketh away or stealeth: As to be taken with the mainours, (Pl. Cor. fol. 179.) is to be taken with the thing stolen about him: And again (fol. 194.) it was pretended, that a thief was delivered to the sheriff or vicount, together with the mainour: 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 mainours; and if it be demanded 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 mainours, and the mainour be carried to the court, they, in ancient times would arraign him upon the mainours, without any appeal or indictment. Coccei. See Blackst. Comment. Vol. III. 71. Vol. IV. 303.