Arrestment
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In Scotch law
Securing a criminalis person till trial or that of a debtor till he give security judicio sisti. The order of a judge, by which he who is debtor in a movable obligation to the arrester's debtor is prohibited to make payment or delivery till the debt due to the arrester be paid or secured.
Ersk. Inst 3, 6, 2.