Manucaptor
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Manucaptor is a noun meaning (law, obsolete) In English common law, a person empowered to take bail and capture a person who forfeits it.
Meaning
(law, obsolete) In English common law, a person empowered to take bail and capture a person who forfeits it.
Example Sentences
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 royalists, as a security for the payment of his £50,000 debt.
Word Forms
- manucaptors
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include manumittor, mancipee, maunder, manicle, mootman, manducator.
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