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Attachment of privilege

to answer some action. It is also a power to apprehend a person in a privileged place, Jac. Law Dict.; 2

Attach

Attach [fr. attaccare, It., to fasten], to take or apprehend by commandant or a writ or precept. It differs from

Apostata capiendo

of his order. It was addressed to the sheriff to apprehend the offender and deliver him into the possession of his

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Habitual Criminals Act

Vict. c. 99. By this Act power was given to apprehend on suspicion convicted persons holding licence under the Penal Servitude

Sensate

To feel or apprehend more or less distinctly through a sense or the senses

Nativo habendo

in any villein, when his villein had absconded, for the apprehending and restoring him to such lord. It was in the

Expressed

of a particular person and when a secretary to Government apprehends a man and tells him in the order that this

Firearms

imposed for the other Act for which the person was apprehended. A firearm or imitation firearm is also deemed an 'offensive

Fugitive offenders

in any other part of his Majesty's dominions, to be apprehended and returned in manner provided by the Fugitive Offenders Act,

Injunction

their object the restraining of the defendant from committing some apprehended wrong, there is a third class called mandatory injunctions, where

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