Law The return of a sheriff who has arrested a person upon a capias. …

Law One who harbors a known outlaw. …

(a) Law The right of jurisdiction over cases involving the harboring of fugitives or outlaws, the right to collect fines in such cases [orig. prob., the offence of entertaining an outlaw]; (b) in……

Law A process issued out of the Court of Common Pleas, directing the sheriff to compel the attendance of reluctant jurymen. …

Law A writ requiring the appearance of a person in court. …

(a) Deceit, trickery; also a treacherous scheme; (b) law withouten fraude or (other) malengin, without fraud or deception. …

Law Legal proceedings brought by a rightful heir upon the death of his ancestor against one wrongfully possessing his inheritance. …

Law A writ instructing the sheriff to provide a jury at the court of Westminster unless the judges of assize previously come to the county of jurisdiction; also, an action tried under such a writ. …

Law The sheriff's reply to a writ directing him to arrest a defendant, indicating that the defendant is not to be found within the sheriff's jurisdiction. …

Law A person empowered to represent a minor in legal proceedings. …

Law The official report by a sheriff that he has in custody a defendant who has surrendered himself so as to discharge his bailsmen. …

Law An endorsement meaning 'it arrives too late, ' written by a sheriff on a writ to explain his failure to execute it. …

Certainly not, in no way, to the contrary; law as a formula for categorical denial of a complaint: absolutely not, not so; seien (ouen) thwert nai. …

Law As a formula for categorical denial of a complaint: absolutely not, not so; seien thwert-out nai. …

Law A writ directing a sheriff to summon a jury; also, a writ requiring a person indicted of a misdemeanor to appear in court. …