manucaptor
manucaptor noun: in English common law, a person empowered to take bail and capture a person who forfeits it.
Noun
manucaptor (plural manucaptors)
- In English common law, a person empowered to take bail and capture a person who forfeits it.
- Later in the same day, however, he was taken to the manor of Cippenham, Buckinghamshire, the property of Richard, earl of Cornwall, and there, under duress (as he later pleaded) and in the presence of John Chishall, the chancellor, he made over all his lands to eleven ‘manucaptors’, all notable...a. 1279, J. R. Maddicott, Ferrers, Robert de, sixth earl of Derby (c. 1239–1279), in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
Forms of manucaptor
| plural | manucaptors |
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Origin of manucaptor
From mainprise.
Questions about manucaptor
- What does manucaptor mean?
- Manucaptor means in English common law, a person empowered to take bail and capture a person who forfeits it.
- What part of speech is manucaptor?
- Manucaptor is a noun.
- What is the plural of manucaptor?
- The plural of manucaptor is manucaptors.
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