Rescous
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
Rescue.
The taking back by force goods which had bcen 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. This was also the name of a writ which lay in cases of rescue.
Co. Litt. 160; 3 Bl. Comm.. 146; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 100; 6 Mees. & W. 564.