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

  Arrestment \Ar*rest"ment\, n. [OF. arrestement.]
     1. (Scots Law) The arrest of a person, or the seizure of his
        effects; esp., a process by which money or movables in the
        possession of a third party are attached.
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     2. A stoppage or check. --Darwin.
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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ARRESTMENT, Scotch law. By this term is sometimes meant the securing of a
  criminal's person till trial, or that of a debtor till he give security
  judicio sisti. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. 1, 2, 12. It is also the order of a judge,
  by which he who is debtor in a movable obligation to the arrester's debtor,
  is prohibited to make payment or delivery till the debt due to the arrester
  be paid or secured. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. 3, 6, 1. See Attachment, foreign.
  where arrestment proceeds on a depending action, it may be loosed by the
  common debtor's giving security to the arrester for his debt, in the event
  it shall be found due. Id. 3, 6, 7.
  
  

















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