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Arrestment

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Definitions from Case Law

From 211 U.S. 239 - Wilder v. Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co. · 1908Most cited · 82 citing opinions

Arrestment,' a word derived from the English statute, is a word of Scotch origin, and derived from the Scottish law, and thus defined by Bouvier: 'The order of a judge, by which he who is debtor in a movable obligation to the arrestor's debtor is prohibited to make payment or delivery till the debt due to the arrestor be paid or secured.

How often courts cite the case defining “Arrestment”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Arrestment” — 82 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.