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latitat Law. Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈlætɪtæt|
[a. L. latitat, 3rd pers. sing. ind. pres. of latitāre to lie concealed.]
A writ which supposed the defendant to lie concealed and which summoned him to answer in the King's Bench.
1565Cooper Thesaurus, Annotare reos absentes, when the iudge ordeineth persons accused in their absence to be sought for: as to send out a latitat. c1570Pride & Lowl. (1841) 75 Then ryseth quarrell:..out gon sub penes, out flaien latitattes. 1620Melton Astrolog. 67 Writs, Latitats, and Procidendos. 1647Ward Simp. Cobler 66, I desire him also to conceale himself as deeply as he can, if he cannot get a speciall pardon, to weare a Latitat about his neck. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. 236 There issues out a writ of latitat, to the sheriff of another county. 1796J. Anstey Pleader's Guide (1803) 55 If haply John-a-Stile provoke The legal fight 'gainst John-a-Noke, The Latitat the foe besieges And baffles him in Banco Regis. 1843Lever J. Hinton v. (1878) 32 You may laugh at a latitat,..and snap your fingers at any process-server. 1848Stewart Mem. A. Averell xviii. 375 Having bailiffs serving him with latitats.
†b. transf. = latitation. Obs. rare—1.
1647R. Stapylton Juvenal 248 In which his flight..he was a while in Latium, which took the name from his latitat. |