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 meditatio fuga, till they find caution judicio fit; or the attaching the effects of a stranger in order to found jurisdiction. But, in the most general acceptation of the word, it denotes that diligence by which a creditor retains 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 LAW.