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Arrestare

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. To arrest; to take or seize a person. Arrestentur corpora eorum; their bodies shall be arrested.

Stat. Westm. 2, c. 11.

Quod ipsum Willielmum ubicunque inventus fuerit, arrestari faciatis; that you cause the said William, wherever he may be found, to be arrested.

Reg. Orig. 24 b.

Arrestari et imprisonari; to be arrested and imprisoned.

Id. 184 b.

Capi et arrestari; to be taken and arrested.

Id. 278 b.

To take or seize a chattel, as a vessel. Navem arrestavit et sub arresto detinuit; he arrested a vessel and detained it under arrest.

Reg. Orig. 105. T. Raym. 490.

To seize a horse, ox or cow.

Reg. Orig. 94, 102. See Id. 127.