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latitat en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈlætɪtæt/

Etymology

Latin, meaning "he lies hidden", from latito.

Meanings

1. (UK, historical) A writ based upon the presumption that the person summoned was hiding.
   • This bill of Middlesex must be served on the defendant by the sheriff, if he finds him in that county; but , if he returns “non est inventus" then there issues out a writ of latitat to the sheriff of another county 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
2. (obsolete, slang) A lawyer.

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