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Posse comitatus
Posse comitatus Pos"se com`i*ta"tus [L. posse to be able, to have power + LL. comitatus a county, from comes, comitis, a count. See County, and Power.] 1. (Law) The power of the county, or the citizens who may be summoned by the sheriff to assist the authorities in suppressing a riot, or executing any legal precept which is forcibly opposed. --Blackstone. 2. A collection of people; a throng; a rabble. [Colloq.] Note: The word comitatus is often omitted, and posse alone used. ``A whole posse of enthusiasts.' --Carlyle. As if the passion that rules were the sheriff of the place, and came off with all the posse. --Locke.

Meaning of Comitatu from wikipedia

- In ancient times, comitatus was an armed escort or retinue, especially in the context of Germanic warrior culture for a warband tied to a leader by an...
- Look up comitatus or posse comitatus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Comitatus is the Latin term for an armed escort or retinue. Comitatus may also...
- The posse comitatus (from the Latin for "be accompanied"), frequently shortened to posse, is in common law a group of people mobilized by the conservator...
- Posse comitatus is the authority of a law officer to conscript any able-bodied males to ****ist him. Posse comitatus may also refer to: Posse Comitatus (organization)...
- The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385, original at 20 Stat. 152) signed on June 18, 1878, by President Rutherford B...
- The Posse Comitatus (Latin, "force of the county") is a loosely organized American far-right extremist social movement which began in the late 1960s....
- mentioned as being in pago Leuchia and in the county of Count Sigehard (in comitatu Sigarhardi). Esneux is also mentioned. In 905 Rouvreux, Foccroule, Noidré...
- Franche-Comté (UK: /ˌfrɒ̃ʃ kɒ̃ˈteɪ/, US: /- koʊnˈ-/; French: [fʁɑ̃ʃ kɔ̃te] ; Frainc-Comtou: Fraintche-Comtè; Arpitan: Franche-Comtât; also German: Freigrafschaft;...
- (in pago ac in comitatu Hainuensi sitem), and Theux, which was described as being in the pagus and county of Liugas (in pago ac in comitatu Liwensi positum)...
- the Latin nominative plural of comitatensis, an adjective derived from comitatus ('company, party, suite'; in this military context it came to the novel...