MAINPERNORS

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  MAINPERNORS, English law. Those persons to whom a man, is delivered out of 
  custody or prison, on their becoming bound for his appearance. 
       2. Mainpernors differ from bail: a man's bail may imprison or surrender 
  him up before the stipulated day of appearance; mainpernors can do neither, 
  but are merely sureties for his appearance at the day; bail are only 
  sureties that the party be answerable for all the special matter for which 


  they stipulate; mainpernors are bound to produce him to answer all charges 
  whatsoever. 3. Bl. Com. 128; vide Dane's Index, h.t.