A latitat is a legal device, namely a writ, that is `based upon the presumption that the person summoned was hiding`, see Blackstone. The word `latitat` is Latin for `he lurks.` In England, the writ is essentially a summons out of the civil, and in those days common law only court King`s Bench. It is now defunct but examples still exist fro...
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writ based on supposition that person is in hiding
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• (n.) A writ based upon the presumption that the person summoned was hiding.
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Lat'i·tat noun [ Latin , he lies hid.]
(O. Eng. Law) A writ based upon the presumption that the person summoned was hiding.
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A latitat (Latin meaning 'he lies hid'), was a writ (now abolished) by which a person was summoned into the King's Bench to answer, as on the supposition that he lay concealed.
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