ARRETTED

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ARRETTED, arrectatus, i. e. ad rectum vocatus. Convened before a judge and
  charged with a crime. Ad rectum malefactorem, is, according to Bracton, to
  have a malefactor forthcoming to be put on his trial. Sometimes it is used
  for imputed or laid to his charge; as, no folly may be arretted to any one
  under age. Bract. 1. 3, tr. 2, c. 10; Cunn. Dict. h.t.