Posse

This word is used substantively to signify a possibility. For example, such a thing is in posse, that is, such a thing may possibly be. When the thing is in being, the phrase to express it is, in esse. POSSE COMITATUS (Lat.) The power of the county. Citizens summoned by the sheriff to assist him in the execution of process.

I, To be able; to be possible; possibility; ability; power; a force; a number of persons summoned to assist a sheriff in the execution of process. Posse comitatus: the power or force of the county; the entire population of a county above the age of fifteen, which a sheriff may summon to his assistance in certain cases.

In old English law. Posse balliviiB: the power of the bailiwick.

To be able: power; to be ' possible: possibility. ' In posse. In possibility; opposed to in esse: in actual existence.^ See Contingency. Posse comitatus. The power of the county, q. v.

Lat. To be able. Posse comitatus: the force of a county, the entire population above the age of fifteen, except peers and clergymen. In posse: in possibility, not in esse. Possessio fratris facit sororem esse haeredem: the possession of the brother makes the sister heir. If a man die, and leave two sons by different wives, and the one brother be seised in possession of the father's estate and die, the estate shall not pass to his brother, but to his sister of the whole blood in preference. A maxim when descent was traced from the person last seised, not, as now, from the purchaser.

To be able; to be possible. This Latin verb is, in law Latin, used as a substantive, with the signification of possibility. Thus a thing is said to be in posse which may possibly be; as distiuguished from a thing in actual existence, said to be in esse. Fosse comitatus. The power of the county. The force of his county, which a sheriff may call to his aid in the execution of process; including, generally, the entire male population over fifteen years of age, of sound body and mind. In English law, the posse comitatus is that force of the people of the county which the sheriff may command to attend him for keeping of the peace and pursuing felons; also for defending the county against the king's enemies. All persons, except peers, women, clergymen, persons decrepit, and infants under the age of fifteen, are, by Stat. 2 Hen. V. ch. 8, 1414, bound to attend this summons, under pain of fine and imprisonment. (1 Bl. Com. 343; 4 Id. 122; 2 Steph. Com. 629; 4 Id. 254.) Moz Uy

This word is used substantively to signify a possibility. ‘sibly be; when the thing is in being, the phrase to express it, is, tn ease, = Vv.)