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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.