(person - arrest)

  • 11Arrést — (mittellat.), Haft (bei Personen), Beschlagnahme (bei Sachen), im Zivilprozeßverfahren gerichtliches Mittel zur Sicherung für eine Geldforderung, besteht in Beschlagnahme von Sachen des Schuldners (Real , dinglicher A.) oder in der Beschränkung… …

    Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • 12arrest record — n. The official record of times a person has been arrested. The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008 …

    Law dictionary

  • 13Arrest warrant — An arrest warrant is a warrant issued by and on behalf of the state, which authorizes the arrest and detention of an individual. Contents 1 Canada 2 United Kingdom 2.1 England and Wales 2.2 …

    Wikipedia

  • 14arrest — arrestable, adj. arrestment, n. /euh rest /, v.t. 1. to seize (a person) by legal authority or warrant; take into custody: The police arrested the burglar. 2. to catch and hold; attract and fix; engage: The loud noise arrested our attention. 3.… …

    Universalium

  • 15arrest — To deprive a person of his liberty by legal authority. Taking, under real or assumed authority, custody of another for the purpose of holding or detaining him to answer a criminal charge or civil demand. State v. Ferraro, 81 N.J.Super. 213, 195 A …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 16arrest — To deprive a person of his liberty by legal authority. Taking, under real or assumed authority, custody of another for the purpose of holding or detaining him to answer a criminal charge or civil demand. State v. Ferraro, 81 N.J.Super. 213, 195 A …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 17Arrest, der — Der Arrếst, des es, plur. die e, die gerichtliche Anhaltung der Personen und Güter, besonders aber der erstern, da es denn so viel als Haft und Verhaft ist, und also füglich könnte entbehret werden; so wie von Sachen Beschlag, und in manchen… …

    Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der Hochdeutschen Mundart

  • 18arrest — The taking, seizing or detaining of the person of another, accomplished by (1) touching or putting hands on the person to be detained; (2) or by any act that indicates an intention to take him into custody and that subjects him to the actual… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 19arrest without warrant — An arrest by a peace officer, or even by a private person in some instances, which is legal, notwithstanding the absence of a warrant of arrest, because of the existence of justification under the law, as where the officer has reasonable cause to …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 20arrest — I UK [əˈrest] / US verb [transitive] Word forms arrest : present tense I/you/we/they arrest he/she/it arrests present participle arresting past tense arrested past participle arrested ** 1) if the police arrest someone, they take that person to a …

    English dictionary