Latitat

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

  Latitat \Lat"i*tat\, n. [L., he lies hid.] (O. Eng. Law)
     A writ based upon the presumption that the person summoned
     was hiding. --Blackstone.
     [1913 Webster]

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



  LATITAT, Eng. law. He lies hid. The name of a writ calling a defendant to 
  answer to a personal action in the king's bench; it derives its name from a 
  supposition that the defendant lurks and lies hid, and cannot be found in 
  the county of Middlesex, (in which the said court is holden,) to be taken 
  there, but is gone into some other county, and therefore requiring the 
  sheriff to apprehend him in such other county. Fitz. N. B. 78.