Arrestee

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Arrestee \Ar`res*tee"\, n. [See {Arrest}, v.] (Scots Law)
     The person in whose hands is the property attached by
     arrestment.
     [1913 Webster]

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



  ARRESTEE, law of Scotland. He in whose hands a debt, or property in his
  possession, has been arrested by a regular arrestment. If, in contempt of
  the arrestment, he shall make payment of the sum, or deliver the goods
  arrested to the common debtor, he is not only liable criminally for breach
  of the arrestment, but he must pay the debt again to the arrester. Ersk. Pr.
  L. Scot. 3, 6, 6.