Extracted From:
  A LAW DICTIONARY ..., SIXTH EDITION, 1856
  by John Bouvier, CHILDS & PETERSON, PHILADELPHIA

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. 
   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....

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