mainour

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mainour - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  MAINOUR, crim. law. The thing stolen found in the hands of the thief who has 
  stolen it; hence when a man is found with property which he has stolen, he 
  is said to be taken with the mainour, that is, it is found in his hands. 
       2. Formerly there was a distinction made between a larceny, when the 
  thing stolen was found in the hands of the criminal, and when the proof 
  depended upon other circumstances not quite so irrefragable; the former 
  properly was termed pris ove maynovere, or ove mainer, or mainour, as it is 
  generally written. Barr. on the Stat. 315, 316, note: