Arrect

Arect, Arret, Aret. [from L. Lat. arrectare, or arretare, q. v.] In old English law. To accuse or charge before a court. Arrected, arretted; accused or charged.

Cowell.

See Arrectare. To account, reckon or consider. Arrected; (Fr. rette); accounted, reckoned, considered. " It should be arrected great folly in her to be ignorant of her own title."

Co. Litt. 173 b.

Lord Coke appears to have borrowed this expression from Littleton's " U serra rette la folly,'* &c. Litt. sect.

261.

To impute, or lay to; to lay to the charge. The French arette used by Littleton (sect. 665,) and elsewhere translated by Coke arreet, is not retained in the later editions, the word adjudge being substituted. Arrect is used in this last sense by old English writers, as Burnet and More, and in the old translations of the Bible. Riehardson^s Diet. voce. Arette, Arrect.