Constabulary
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A police force of a county, state or country. CONSTAT (Lat. it appears). A certificate by an officer that certain matters therein stated appear of record.
See 1 Hayw. (N. C.) 410.
An exemplification under the great seal of the enrollment of letters patent.
Co. Litt. 225.
A certificate which the clerk of the pipe and auditors of the exchequer make at the request of any person who intends to plead or move in the court for the discharge of any thing, and the effect of it is the certifying what constat (appears) upon record touching the matter in question.