Latitat
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In old English practice. A writ which issued in personal actions, on the return of non est invetitus to a bill of Middlesex; so called from the emphatic word in its recital, in which it was "testified that the defendant lurks [latitat] and wanders about" in the county.
3 Bl. Comm. 286. Abolished by St. 2 Wm. IV. c. 39.