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Resist

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

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

To oppose; to oppose with force; to prevent, to hinder. Resist an officer: personally to resist; to resist directly and actively and by means in some degree forcible, not merely to hinder or interrupt Resist arrest: to refuse to go with the ofl Scer who assumes to make an arrest