Corpus comitatus
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. The body of a county.
Molloy de Jur. Mar. 231. Cro, Jac, 514. 5 Howard's R, 452, 453, 462. 5 Mason's R. 290.
The county at large, as distinguished from any particular locality within it. See De corpore comitatus. CORPUS CUM causa! L. Lat. (The body with the cause.) An English writ which issued out of chancery, to remove both the body and the record, touching the cause of any man lying in execution upon a judgment for debt, into the king's bench, there to remain until he satisfied the judgment.
Cowell. Blount.
Applied also to a writ of habeas corpus for the removal of a cause.*
See Habeas corpus.