Rescous
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
A resistance against lawful authority; also, the name of an old writ which lay to redress such resistance. As, for instance, the taking back by force goods which have been taken under a distress, or the violently taking away a man who is under arrest, and setting him at liberty, or otherwise procuring his escape, are both so denominated; and for either, writs of rescoua used to lie, as now an ordinary prosecution for the rescue lies against such offenders, offending parties, or rescussors, as they were termed.
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