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arrestment|əˈrɛstmənt|
[a. OF. arestement (later arrêtement): see arrest v. and -ment.]
1. The action of stopping, staying, or checking.
1836–9Todd Cycl. Anat. & Phys. II. 612/1 An arrestment of the movements of the muscles. 1845Vest. Creat. 276 An arrestment of this principle at a particular early point. 1875Darwin Insectiv. Plants ix. 201 Any such arrestment of movement.
b. concr. The material result of such stoppage or check.
1872H. Macmillan True Vine vii. 316 Just as fruit is the arrestment and metamorphosis of the branch, so are thorns an arrestment and blight in the formation of branches.
2. The action of apprehending a person by legal authority; arrest, apprehension. (Chiefly Scotch.) Formerly fig. forcible or authoritative seizure.
1474Act 7 Jas. III (1597) §52 Arreistmentes be Crowners or Serjandes. 1601Chester Love's Martyr xxiii. (1878) 86 To deaths arestment he began to yeeld. 1645Rutherford Tryal & Tri. Faith (1845) 101 Loosed from the arrestment of vanity. 1791T. Newte Tour Eng. & Scot. 375 Judgment in a civil case..upon which execution and personal arrestment can proceed in fourteen days. 1883Blackw. Mag. June 800 Rothesay's arrestment and custody.
3. Seizure of property by authority of law; attachment. Esp. in Sc. Law, ‘A process by which a creditor may attach money or moveable property, which a third party holds for behoof of his debtor.’ Craig.
1581Act 7 Jas. VI (1597) §117 Quhen Arreistmentes ar maid to mak the gudes furthcummand. 1754Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 17 Action cannot be brought against him till his effects be first attached by an arrestment jurisdictionis fundandæ causa. 1824Scott Redgauntlet xiii, ‘Ye have omitted to speak a word of the arrestments.’ 1864Daily Tel. 16 Aug., The peculiarities of Scotch common law..Arrestment to found jurisdiction is one of them. It was derived from the Roman law, and is still existent..by force of custom in London..under the name of ‘foreign attachment.’ |