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POSSE COMITATUS (

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Lat. "
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power of a
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county ")  , a
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summons to every male in the
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county, between the ages of fifteen and twenty, to be ready and apparelled, at the command of the
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sheriff and the cry of the county, to maintain
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peace and pursue felons . Ecclesiastical persons, peers and such as laboured under any infirmity were not compellable to attend . Owing to the
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establishment of county
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police, the sheriff does not now pursue felons, but by the Sheriffs
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Act (1887, sec . 8, sub-sec . 2) the calling out of the posse comitatus is expressly authorized if the sheriff finds any resistance in the
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execution of a
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writ . In view of the sheriff's
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duty to raise, if necessary, the posse comitatus it is no
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answer by him, for non-execution of a writ, to say that he was resisted . See P . E .
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Mather, Sheriff
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Law .

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