Arrerissement

Arerisment. L. Fr. Sfrom arrere, back, behind.] A hindrance; lelay; putting back. L. Fr. Diet. Kelham. * To ARREST. [L. Lat. arrestare, arestare, from Fr. arrester, arester, to stop, or stay; or according to Spelman, from Sax. a, to or until, and rest.! In practice. To stop or stay by authority of law. To stop or detain a person, and restrain his Uberty until he complies with some exigency of law, (remorari, vel'aliquem sistere, uigue dum Ugi respondeat.) Spelman, voc. Arrestare, To stop or stay a legal proceeding; particularly the judgment of a court, by some rule or order of the same court. See Arrest of judgment. To take, seize or apprehend a person by virtue of legal process issued for that purpose, with the view either of holding him m custody, or of compelling him otherwise to comply with the exigency of the process. To subject a person to the operation of legal process, by bringing his body within the power of the officer executing such process. See Arrest. To take or seize property. Arrest, in this sense, occurs constantly in old English practice, (see arrestare;) and is common in Scotch law. ^rsk. Inst, b. 3, tit. 6. It was also formerly used in the same sense m the state of New- York, being applied particularly to ships and vessels; but has now given place, as in England, to the word attach, (q. V.) 1 J\r. f. Rev. Laws, (1813,) 130. 2 N. F. Rev. Stat. [498,] 405.