MANUCAPTIO

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

  MANUCAPTIO, practice. In the English law it is a writ which lies for a man 
  taken on suspicion of felony and the like, who cannot be admitted to bail by 
  the sheriff, or others having power to let to mainprise. F. N. B. 249.