mainprise
/'meinpraiz/
📖 中文释义
- n. [律] 保释
🔗 释义中的汉语词
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- n. A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take
- sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let
- him go at large. This writ is now obsolete.
- n. Deliverance of a prisoner on security for his appearance
- at a day.
- v. t. To suffer to go at large, on his finding sureties, or
- mainpernors, for his appearance at a day; -- said of a prisoner.