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In old English practice. A writ which issued in personal actions, on the return of non est inventus to a bill of Middlesex; so called from the emphatic word in its recital, in which it was “testified that the in the county. 3Bl. Comm. 286. Abolished by St. 2 Wm. TY. ec. 39.

He lies hid. The name of a writ, in old English practice, requiring the defendant to answer in a personal action in the court of king's bench. It issued upon the theory that the defendant could not be found in the county of Middlesex, where the court was held, but was gone into some other county; and contained a recital that the defendant lies hid, and wanders about in the country, from the emphatic word of which, in the Latin form, the name is derived. The writ was abolished by Stat. 2 Wm. IV. ch. 39. LATROOINIUM; LATROCINY. Latin forms of, or equivalents for, larceny. Latter part of the month. This phrase must be construed to mean all the last part of the month, and to include the whole of the last day. An action commenced on the last day of the month, on an obligation requiring performance " in the latter part," is prematurely brought. Bailey v. Ricketts, 4 Ind. 488.

he lies hid. In the English law this is the name of a writ calling a defendant to answer to a personal action in the king’s bench; it derives its name from a supposition that the defendant lurks and lies hid, and cannot be found in the county of Middlesex, (in which the said court is holden,) to be taken there, but is gone into some other county, and therefore requiring the sheriff to apprehend him in such other county. Fitz. N. B. 78.