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Apprehend

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

To understand, conceive, believe. Golden v. State, 25 Ga. 527, 531.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

To take hold of, whether with the mind, and so to conceive, believe, fear, dread, (Trogdon v. State, 133 Ind. I, 32 N. E. 725;) or actually and badily, and so to take a person on a criminal process ; to seize; to arrest, (Hogan v. Stophlet, 179 III. 150, 53 N. E. 604, 44 In R. A. 809.)

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

To take or take hold of; to take a person on criminal process.