O.k. I’m at work, and I can’t do any work, because all of my code, data, and documents are on a network share disk. And that system is totally dead at the moment. At the moment then, mainprize.ca is a more stable machine than my work machine.
WRIT OF MAINPRIZE, English law. A writ directed to the sheriff (either generally, when any man is imprisoned for a bailable offence, and bail has been refused; or specially, when the offence or cause of commitment is not properly bailable below) commanding him to take sureties for the prisoner's appearance, commonly called mainpernors, and to set him at large. 3 B]. Com. 128. Vide Mainprize.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.