Definition of Writ Of Mainprize

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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Writ of mainprize
    Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    A writ for main-prize. See Mainprize.

  • Writ of Mainprize
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    In English law. A writ directed to the sheriff, (either generally, when any man is imprisoned for a bailable offense and bail has bsen refused or specially, when the offense or cause of commitment is not properly bsilable below,) commanding him to take sureties for the prisoner's appearanco, commonly calied "mainpernors," and to set him at large. 3 Bl. Comm. 128.