Paratum habeo
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881), Abbott (1879)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
I have him ready.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Lat. I have him in readiness. The return by the sheriff to a capias ad respondendum, signifying that he has the defendant in readiness to he brought into court.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
I I have him in readiness; a return to a capias ad respondendum, meaning that the sheriff has taken the defendant and has him ready to bring into court
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
I. (I have him in readiness.) A sheriff's return, upon a ca. resp., that he had taken the defendant, and had him ready to bring into court.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
I have him in readiness. The form of a return by a sheriff to a capias ad respondendum, signifying that he had the defendant in readiness to be brought into court.