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A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

/. fr. and eng. A forcible taking back of goods distrained, or in the custody of the law; the forcible delivery of a defendant, or other party arrested, from the officer who is carrying him to prison; a writ which lay in cases of rescous.