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† mainpernable, a. Obs.
[a. AF. mainpernable, *mainprenable, f. mainprendre: see mainprize n.]
Capable of being mainprized.
[1330Act 4 Edw. III, c. 2 Sils ne soyent meynpernables par la lei.] 1487Act 3 Hen. VII, c. 3 Dyverse persones such as wer not maynprnable ware oftymes leten to baille and maynprise. 1630in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1659) I. 27 Although he did nothing, he is not main-pernable until the King sent his pleasure, because he was armed and furiously disposed. 1647Sir R. Holbourne Freeholders' Grand Inquest 34 The penalty for detaining a Prisoner that is mainpernable is a Fine at the Kings Pleasure. 1772Junius Lett. lxviii. 342 In the two preceding statutes, the words bailable, replevisable, and mainpernable, are used synonymously. |