ARREST

In criminal practice. The stopping, seizing, or apprehending a person by lawful authority; the act of laying hands upon a person for the purpose of taking his body into custody of the law; the restraining of the liberty of a man's person in order to compel obedience to the order of a court of justice, or to prevent the commi ion of a crime, or to insure that a person charged or suspected of-a crime may be forthcoming to answer It. French v. Bancroft, 1 Mete. (Ma .) 502; Emery v. Chesley, 18 N. H. 201; U. S. v. Benner, 24 Fed. Cas. 1084; Rhodes v. Walsh, 55 Minn. 542, 57 N. W. 212, 23 L. R. A. 632; Ex parte Sherwood, 29 Tex. App. 334, 15 s. w. 812. Arrest is well described in the old books as "the beginning of imprisonment, when a man is first taken and restrained of his liberty, by power of a lawful warrant." 2 Shep. Abr. 299; Wood, Inst. Com. Law, 575. In eivil practice. The dpprehension ot a person by virtue of a lawful authority to answer the d~mand against him In a civil action. In admiralty practice. In admlralty actions a lihlp or cargo •• -an-eated when -the [s. 94]