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Latitat (he lies hid), a writ whereby all persons were originally summoned to answer in personal actions in the King's Bench; so called because it is supposed by the writ that the defendant lurks and lies hid, and cannot be found in the County of Middlesex (in which the Court is holden) to be taken by bill, but has gone into some other county, to the sheriff of which this writ was directed to apprehend him there, Fitz. N.B. 78; Termes de la Ley. Abolished by the (repealed) (English) Uniformity of Process Act, 1832 (2 Wm. 4, c. 39). See BILL OF MIDDLESEX.