LANGUIDUS

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

  LANGUIDUS, practice. The name of a return made by the sheriff, when a 
  defendant whom he has taken by virtue of process is so dangerously sick that 
  to remove him would endanger his life or health. In that case the officer 
  may and ought unquestionably to abstain from removing him, and may permit 
  him to remain even in his own house, in the custody of a follower, though 
  not named in the warrant, he keeping the key of the house in his possession 


  the officer ought to remove him as soon is sufficiently recovered. If there 
  be a doubt as to the state of health of the defendant, the officer should 
  require the attendance and advice of some respectable medical man, and 
  require him, at the peril of the consequences of misrepresentation, to 
  certify in writing whether it be fit to remove the party, or take him to 
  prison within the county. 3 Chit. Pr. 358. For a form of the return of 
  languidus, see 3 Chit. P. 249; T. Chit. Forms, 53.