Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of arresting or stopping; obstruction; stoppage.
- noun In Scots law: A process by which a creditor may attach money or movable property which a third person holds for behoof of his debtor. It bears a general resemblance to foreign attachment by the custom of London. See
attachment . The arrest or detention of a criminal till he finds caution or surety to stand trial, or the securing of a debtor until he pays the debt or gives security for its payment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Scots Law) The arrest of a person, or the seizure of his effects; esp., a process by which money or movables in the possession of a third party are attached.
- noun A stoppage or check.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The action of
arresting (in any sense)
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Examples
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This arrestment is the first case in the world when people share fileswith file sharing applications, one of peer-to-peer applications.
Boing Boing: November 25, 2001 - December 1, 2001 Archives 2001
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Part of the bill was later subject to an arrestment order in Rangers' bank account.
Rangers' cash mess will not make club go bust, says owner Craig Whyte 2011
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Now consider the principium tertii exculsi: it claims that every supposition is either true or false; in mathematics this means that for every supposed embedding of a system into another, satisfying certain conditions, we can either accomplish such an embedding by a construction, or we can arrive by a construction at the arrestment of the process which would lead to the embedding.
The Development of Intuitionistic Logic van Atten, Mark 2009
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Possibilites of deaths and arrestment of young residents by militants, to make them militants.
Dara Adam Khel 2008
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When World War II broke out, Pound almost fanatically addressed American troops in broadcasts on Rome Radio, which ended in 1945 with his arrestment by partisans and imprisonment by U.S. Forces in a Disciplinary Center near Pisa.
Ezra Pound greenintegerblog 2008
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It was this brave and heroic resistance waged by such women that led to their continuous harassment and arrestment.
August 2006 2006
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Cardinal; and that being denounced, or put to the horn, and liable to summary arrestment and execution, he could not have undertaken the task at such a time, of carrying letters and messages between the conspirators.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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But it is common with Mr. Mill and his school to think of law as _necessary inviolable_ sequence; whereas it is but a fixed mode of action whether _necessarily or freely_ determined; and it is a part of law that some activities should be liable to suspension or arrestment by others, and especially by the
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[861] A reference to the History of France will explain Knox's allusion to the treacherous conduct of Henry the Second, in the arrestment and execution of two of his councillors who had avowed their attachment to the Protestant faith.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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On the occasion of the arrestment of the clerk Nikola Pavičić, the musket of an ardito went off and an eye was blown out to Mr. Pavičić.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917
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