manucaptor

Noun. (legal, obsolete) In English common law, a person empowered to take bail and capture a person who forfeits it. John Covell, ''The Interpreter, or Booke containing the Signification on Words'', London, 1607, cited in Harriet Ruth Waters Cooke, ''The Driver Family: Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Robert and Phebe Driver''. New York: 1889.

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