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单词 taken with the mainour
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taken (also found) with the mainour
1. Law. A stolen object found in the possession of a thief when arrested. Chiefly in taken (also found) with the mainour.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stolen goods > [noun] > in thief's possession
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (intransitive)] > be arrested > be caught with stolen property
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c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty (1873) II. 21 Theves taken with litell menure or with gret menure.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 9 Yet al had he courtoys hanged whan he fonde hym with the menowr, he had not moche mysdon ne trespaced.
1550 H. Latimer Moste Faithfull Serm. before Kynges Maiestye sig. Diiii Euen as a theefe that is taken with the manner when [1584 that] he stealeth.
1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia i. sig. Dviii Moneye fownde abowte them shoulde betraye the robberye. They shoulde be no soner taken wyth the maner, but furthwyth they shoulde be punysshed.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 318 O villaine, thou stolest a cup of Sacke eighteene yeares ago and wert taken with the maner . View more context for this quotation
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Tt1/1 Mainour, aliâs Manour, aliâs Meinoure,..signifieth in our common lawe, the thing that a theefe taketh away or stealeth.
1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 303 When a thief was taken with the mainour, that is, with the thing stolen upon him, in manu.
1838–42 T. Arnold Hist. Rome (1846) I. xiv. 293 (note) No power could bail a thief taken with the manner, that is, with the thing stolen upon him.
1867 C. H. Pearson Hist. Eng. I. 274 The thief overtaken with the mainour might be killed.
1973 Supreme Court Reporter (U.S.) 93A 2362/1 To be found in the possession of stolen goods was a serious thing; if they were recently stolen, then was one ‘taken with the mainour’.
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found (or taken) with the mainour (manner)
with bag and baggage: see bag n. 20. ( found (or taken) with the mainour (manner)): see mainour n. 1.extracted from withprep.adv.conj.
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