Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, the answer made by the sheriff in the return of the writ when the defendant is not to be found in his bailiwick.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Law) The return of a sheriff on a writ, when the defendant is not found in his county.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- phrase law The response of a
sheriff on awrit , when thedefendant is not found in hiscounty .
Etymologies
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Latin, he is not found.
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