Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Languidus
n. [Law Latin "sick"] Hist. At common law, a return of process made by the sheriff when a defendant whom the sheriff had taken into custody was too sick to be removed.
cepi corpus et est languidus
I have arrested the defendant and he is sick. ( This notation in a sheriff's return indicated that the defendant was too sick to be moved safely from the place of arrest.
duces tecum licet languidus
n. [Law Latin "bring with you, although sick"] Hist. A habeas corpus writ ordering a sheriff to bring someone into court despite a return by the sheriff noting that the person was too ill to come.