MANOUR, or Meinour (from the French, manier, i.e. manu tradere), in a legal sense denotes the thing that a thief taketh away or fleeth: 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 delivered to the sheriff or viscount, 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 be brought into the court as the mainour; 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 mainour, and the mainour be carried to the court, they, in ancient times, would arraign him upon the mainour, without any appeal or indictment. Cowell. See Blackst. Comment. vol. iii. p. 71. vol. iv. p. 303.