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MAINOUR

Volume 10 · 176 words · 1797 Edition

Manour, or Meinour (from the French manier, i.e. manu tradare), in a legal sense denotes the thing that a thief taketh away or stealeth: As to be taken with the manour (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 delivered to the sheriff or viscount, together with the manour: 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, ar' the goods he brought into the court as the manour; 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 manour, and the manour be carried to the court, they, in ancient times, would arraign him upon the manour, without any appeal or indictment. Cowell. See Blackstone Comment. Vol. III. 71. Vol. IV. 303.