Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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de homine capto in withernamium

[Law Latin "for taking a man in withernam"] Hist. A writ to seize and jail a person who took a bondman out of the county to keep the bond man from being replevied. ( The defendant was jailed without bail until the bondman was re turned. See WITIIERNAM.