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latitats

latitats is the plural of latitat.

Meaning of latitat

Noun

latitat (plural latitats)

  1. (UK, historical) A writ based upon the presumption that the person summoned was hiding.
    • This bill of Middlesex must be served on the defendant by the sheriff, if he finds him in that county; but , if he returns “non est inventus" then there issues out a writ of latitat to the sheriff of another county1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC
  2. (obsolete, slang) A lawyer.

Questions about latitats

What is latitats the plural of?
Latitats is the plural of latitat.

Words near latitats in the dictionary

  1. latisternal
  2. latitancy
  3. latitant
  4. latitat
  5. latitation
  6. latitats
  7. latite
  8. latites
  9. latitic
  10. latitude
  11. latitude by account

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