Constable A peace officer for a particular geographic area -- most often a rural county -- who commonly has the power to serve legal papers, arrest lawbreakers, and keep the peace.
Constable: A person who is given the legal right to serve process.
Constructive Abandonment: The refusal of one spouse to engage in sexual relations with the other spouse.
CONSTABLE - An officer, generally elected by the people, who possesses power as a conservator of the peace at common law, and by virtue of various legislative enactments.
HIGH CONSTABLE. An officer appointed in some cities bears this name. His powers are generally Iimited to matters of police, and are not more extensive in these respects than those of constables. (q. v.) ...
Constable
Definition - Noun
[Old French conestable military commander, chief of the royal household, from Late Latin comes stabuli, literally, officer of the stable]
: a public officer usu.
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search warrant - An order in writing, issued by a justice or other magistrate, in the name of the state, directed to a sheriff, constable, or other officer, ...
The origin and development of the meaning of the designation is closely analogous with that of constable.
"In (the) period of approximately the 11th to 15th centuries there existed a court called the Court of Chivalry (also known as the Court of the Constable and Marshal) to try matters of honour, ...
The procedure is to take the judgment to the clerk of the court and have a writ of execution issued which is taken to the sheriff (or marshal, constable or other authorized official) with instructions on what property to execute upon.
search warrant - An order issued by a judge or magistrate commanding a sheriff, constable, or other officer to search a specified location.
A common-law writ commanding the sheriff to take a defendant into custody. Named from the emphatic word in the writ when expressed in Latin. Has come to designate the whole class of writs by which arrests are made by a constable, sheriff, or marshal.
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