单词 | mainpernor |
释义 | mainpernorn. Law. Now historical. 1. A person who stands surety that another (esp. a prisoner) will fulfil a legal obligation to appear in court on a specified day. Also figurative.For the alleged distinction between mainpernor and bail see quot. 1768. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > bailing or bail > [noun] > one who gives bail or surety mainpernora1325 mainprizec1390 mainprizer1440 manucaptor1523 fidejussor1539 bail1594 adpromissor1675 manuprisor1695 bailsman1862 a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) xii. 65 Ȝif ani schirreue..ansuerie of þe issues of ani reconisaunce..ore of mainpernurs. c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. iv. 99 Þat mede muste be meynpernour, resoun þei besouȝte. a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) 2399 And to prison he gooth; he gette no bettre Til his mainpernour his arrest vnfettre. 1459 Rolls of Parl. V. 368/1 Unto the tyme that they have founde suerte of iiii Meynpurnours. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xijv Thou knowest wel inough that I am thy pledge borowe and mayneperner, body for body, and land for goodes in open parliament. 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Irelande ii. 63/1 in Chron. I [They] became mainpernours for the sayde Earle of Desmonde, that hee shoulde come into England and abide such tryall as the law would awarde. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Tt1v/1 They that do thus vndertake [stand bail] for any, are called Mainpernours [printed Mainpernouns], because they do receiue him into their hands. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 151 Mainperners are not to be punished as principals, unlesse they be parties or privies to the failing of the principall. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 128 Mainpernors differ from bail, in that a man's bail may imprison or surrender him up before the stipulated day of appearance; mainpernors can do neither, but are barely sureties for his appearance at the day: bail are only sureties, that the party be answerable for the special matter for which they stipulate; mainpernors are bound to produce him to answer all charges whatsoever. 1857 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. II. 691 If any friend had pledged himself to the assurance that..the fine young Duke had always conducted himself with strictly edifying propriety we should say..a bold mainpernour was he. 1904 M. Bateson Borough Customs (Selden Soc.) I. 99 If he who is..mainprised does not come to justify himself..let his..mainpernours be distrained to produce him. 1968 Medium Ævum 37 88 The mainpernor of naughty and obscure Matilda Nemeg. 2009 Rev. Eng. Stud. 60 391 The mainpernors wanted to be discharged of the bonds they had entered into. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > [noun] > subordinate minister1442 juniora1530 subminister1558 underhead1599 subalternal?1608 mainpernor1631 sub1653 subaltern1706 under-somethinga1718 underling1796 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 342 Officers belonging to these Staples, were Maiors, Constables, Manipernors. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1325 |
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