APPREHENSION

In practice. The seizure, taking, or arrest of a person on a criminal charge. The term "appr,ehension" is applied exclusively to criminal cases, and "arrest" to both criminal and civil cases. Cummings v. Clinton County, 181 Mo. 162, 79 S. W. 1127; Ralls County v. Stephens, lM Mo, App. 115, 78 S. W. 291; Hogan v. Stophlet, 179 Ill. 150, 53 N. ID. 6M, 44 L. R. A. 809. In the civil law. A physical or corporal act, (corpus,) on the part of one who intends to acquire po e ion of a thing, by which he brings· himself into such a relation to the thing that he may subject it to his exclusive control; or by which he obtains the physical ability to exercise his power over the thing whenever he pleases. One of the requisites to the acquisition of judicial po e ion, and by which, when accompanied by intention, (animus,) po e ion is acquired. Mackeld. Rom. Law, §§ 248, 249, 250. [s. 86]