Latitat
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
He lies hid
The name of a writ, in old English practice, requiring the defendant to answer in a personal action in the court of king's bench. It issued upon the theory that the defendant could not be found in the county of Middlesex, where the court was held, but was gone into some other county; and contained a recital that the defendant lies hid, and wanders about in the country, from the emphatic word of which, in the Latin form, the name is derived. The writ was abolished by Stat. 2 Wm. IV. ch.
39.
LATROOINIUM; LATROCINY. Latin forms of, or equivalents for, larceny. Latter part of the month. This phrase must be construed to mean all the last part of the month, and to include the whole of the last day. An action commenced on the last day of the month, on an obligation requiring performance " in the latter part," is prematurely brought.
Bailey v. Ricketts, 4 Ind. 488.