Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

ARPEN

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ARREST

ARRAY. The whole body of jurors sum moned to attend a court, as they are arrayed or arranged on the panel. Dane, Abr. In dex; 1 Chit. Crim. Law, 536; Com. Dig. "Challenge," B. A ranking, or setting forth in order; the order in which jurors' names are ranked in the panel containing them. Co. Litt. 156a/ 3 Bl. Comm. 359. ARREARS, or ARREARAGES. Money unpaid at the due time, as rent be hind; the remainder due after payment of a part of an account; money in the hands of an accounting party. Cowell. ARRECT. To accuse or charge with an offense. Arrectati, accused or suspected persons. ARRENDAMIENTO. In Spanish law. The contract of letting and hiring an estate or land, (heredad.) White, Recop. b. 2, tit. 14, c. 1. ARREST. In criminal practice. The stopping, seizing, or apprehending a person by lawful authority; the act of laying hands upon a person for the purpose of taking his body into custody of the law; the restraining of the liberty of a man's person in order to compel obedience to the order of a court of justice, or to prevent the commission of a crime, or to insure that a person charged or suspected of a crime may be forthcoming to answer it. Arrest is well described in the old books as "the beginning of imprisonment, when a man is first taken and restrained of his liber ty, by power of a lawful warrant." 2 Shep. Abr. 299; Wood, Inst. Com. Law, 575. In civil practice. The apprehension of a person by virtue of a lawful authority to answer the demand against him in a civil ac tion. In admiralty practice. In admiralty ac tions a ship or cargo is arrested when the mai shal has served the writ in an action in rem. Williams & B. Adm. Jur. 193. Synonyms distinguished. Theterm "ap prehension" seems to be more peculiarly appropriate to seizuie on criminal process; while "arrest" may apply to either a civil or criminal action, but is perhaps better con fined to the former. As ordinarily used, the terms "arrest" and "at tachment" coincide in meaning to some extent, though in strictness, as a distinction, an arrest may be said to be the act resulting from the serv ice of an attachment; and, in the more extended sense which is sometimes given to attachment, in

ARPEN, Arpent. A measure of land of uncertain quantity, mentioned in Domesday and other old books; by some called an "acre," by others "half an acre," and by others a "furlong." Spelman; Cowell; Blount. A measure of land in Louisiana. 6 Pet. 763. A French measure of land, containing one hundred square perches, of eighteen feet each, or about an acre. But the quantity raried in different provinces. Spelman. ARPENTATOR. A measurer or sur reyorofland. Cowell; Spelman. ARRA. In the civil law. Earnest; earn est-money; evidence of a completed bargain. Used of a contract of marriage, as well as any other. Spelled, also, Arrha, Arrce. Cal vin. ARRACK. A spirit procured from dis tillation of the cocoa-nut tree, rice, or sugar cane, and imported from India. ARRAIGN. In criminal practice. To bring a prisoner to the bar of the court to answer the matter charged upon him in the indictment. The arraignment of a prisoner consists of calling upon him by name, and reading to him the indictment, (in the En glish tongue,) and demanding of him whether he be guilty or not guilty, and entering his plea. In old English law. To order, or set in order; to conduct in an orderly manner; to prepare for trial. To arraign an assise was to cause the tenant to be called to make the plaint, and to set the cause in such order as the tenant might be enforced to answer there unto. Litt. § 442; Co. Litt. 2626. ARRAIGNMENT. In criminal prac tice. Calling the defendant to the bar of the court, to answer the accusation contained in the indictment. ARRAIGNS, CLERK OF. In English law. An assistant to the clerk of assise. ARRAMEUR. In old French law. An officer employed to superintend the loading of vessels, and the safe stowage of the cargo. 1 Pet. Adm. Append. XXV. ARRAS. In Spanish law. The donation which the husband makes to his wife, by rea son or on account of marriage, and in con sideration of the dote, or portion, which he receives from her. Aso & M. Inst. b. 1, t. 7,0.8.

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