Latitat

English Law: Latitat in the Past

He lies hid. There is further information on this topic in this legal reference. 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 (see law enforcement in the U.K. encyclopedia) to apprehend him in such other county. Fitz. N. B. 78. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”]

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1. Partialy, this information about latitat is based on the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, 1848 edition. There is a list of terms of the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, including latitat.

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