† mainpernable, a. Obs.
[a. AF. mainpernable, *mainprenable, f. mainprendre: see mainprize n.]
Capable of being mainprized.
| [1330 Act 4 Edw. III, c. 2 Sils ne soyent meynpernables par la lei.] 1487 Act 3 Hen. VII, c. 3 Dyverse persones such as wer not maynp{supr}nable ware oftymes leten to baille and maynprise. 1630 in 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. 1647 Sir R. Holbourne Freeholders' Grand Inquest 34 The penalty for detaining a Prisoner that is mainpernable is a Fine at the Kings Pleasure. 1772 Junius Lett. lxviii. 342 In the two preceding statutes, the words bailable, replevisable, and mainpernable, are used synonymously. |