in English law, the apprehending and restraining a person, in order to oblige him to be obedient to the law.

ARREST of judgment, the assigning just reasons why judgment should not pass.

ARRESTMENT, in Scots law, signifies the securing of a criminal till trial, or till he find caution to stand trial, in what are called bailable crimes. In civil cases, it signifies either the detaining of strangers or natives in meditata fuga, till they find caution judicio fuit, or the attaching the effects of a stranger in order to found jurisdiction. See Scots Law, tit. Jurisdiction and judges in general. But, in the most general acceptation of the word, it denotes that diligence by which a creditor detains the goods or effects of his debtor in the hands of third parties till the debt due to him be either paid or secured. See Scots Law, tit. Arrestments and Pointings.

ARRESTO facti super bonis, &c., a writ brought by a denizen against the goods of aliens found within this kingdom, as a recompense for goods taken from him in a foreign country.