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Pyrenean mountains. Its specific gravity 
makes it intermediate between calc-spar, 
and appatite. 
ARRAIGNMENT, in law, tlie arraign- 
ing or setting a thing in order, as a person 
is said to arraign a writ of novel disseisin, 
who prepares and fits it for trial. It is most 
properly used to call a person to answer in 
form of law upon an indictment, &e. at the 
suit of the king. 
The arraignment is to take care that the 
prisoner appears to be tried, and hold up 
his hand at the bar for the certainty of the 
person, and plead a sufficient plea to the in- 
dictment. The prisoner is to hold up his 
hand only in treason and felony ; but this is 
only a ceremony : if he owns that, he is the 
person, it is sufficient without it ; and then, 
upon his arraignment, his fetters are to be 
taken off. A prisoner under indictment of 
the highest crime must be brought to the 
bar without irons, shackles, or bonds. This 
is the law ; but to the disgrace of our courts 
it is almost wholly disregarded, and priso- 
ners are generally tried in their irons. 
ARRANGEMENT, in music, is that ex- 
tension, selection, and disposal of the move- 
ments and parts of a composition, which fit 
and accommodate it to the powers of some 
instrument or instruments for which it was 
not originally designed by the composer. 
ARREARS, the remainder of a sum due, 
or money remaining in the hands of, an ac- 
countant. It signifies also, more generally, 
the money that is due for rent unpaid for 
land or houses ; likewise what remains un- 
paid of pensions, taxes, or any other money 
payable annually, or at any fixed term. 
ARREST, in civil cases, is a legal re- 
straint of a person charged with some debt 
to an individual ; and, in criminal cases, for 
some crime against the state ; and it is exe- 
cuted in pursuance of the command of some 
court of record, or officer of justice. Certain 
persons are privileged from arrests, as mem- 
bers of parliament, peeresses by birth, mar- 
riage, &c., members of convocation actually 
attending them, ambassadors, domestic ser- 
vants of ambassadors, king’s servants, mar- 
shals, or wardens of the fleet, clerks, attor- 
nies, or other persons attending the courts 
of justice, clergymen performing divine ser- 
vice, suitors, witnesses subpoenaed, and 
other persons necessarily attending any 
court of record upon business, bankrupts 
coming to surrender, within 42 days after 
their surrender, witnesses properly sum- 
moned before commissioners of bankruptcy, 
or other commissioners of great seal ; sailors 
ARS 
and volunteer soldiers, unless the debt be 
201., officers of court, only where they are 
sued in their rights, but not if as executors 
or administrators, nor in joint actions. No 
writ, process, warrant, &c. (except for trea- 
son, felony, or for breach of the peace), 
shall be served on Sunday ; hut a person ar- 
rested the day before, may be retaken on 
the Sunday. No person can be arrested 
out of a superior court, unless the cause of 
action be 101. and upwards ; an arrest must 
be by corporal seizing, or touching the de- 
fendant. An officer cannot justify breaking 
open an outward door or window to execute 
process, unless a stranger who is not of the 
family, upon a pursuit, take refuge in the 
house of another. The chamber of a lodger 
is not to be considered as his outer door. 
No officer shall carry his prisoner to any ta- 
vern without his consent, nor to gaol within 
24 hours after Ids arrest, unless he refuse to 
go to some safe house. In criminal cases, 
the causes of suspicion which justify the ar- 
rest of a person for felony are, the common 
fame of the country, the living a vagrant, 
idle, disorderly life, without any visible 
means to support it ; the being in company 
with a known offender at the time of the 
offence ; the being found in circumstances 
which induce a strong presumption of guilt ; 
behaviour betraying a consciousness of 
guilt; and the being pursued by hue and 
cry. But none of these causes will justify 
the arresting a man for the suspicion of 
crimes, unless a crime has been actually com- 
mitted. 
Arrest of judgment : to move in arrest 
of judgment, is to shew cause why judgment 
should not be stayed, notwithstanding a ver- 
dict given. The causes of arrest of judg- 
ment are, want of notice of trial ; where the 
plaintiff before trial treats the jury ; the re- 
cord differs from the deed pleaded ; for ma- 
terial defect in pleading ; where persons are 
misnamed ; more is given and found by the 
verdict, than laid in the declaration; or, 
the declaration doth not lay the tiling with 
certainty, See. 
ARRONDEE, in heraldry, a cross, the 
arms of which are composed of sections of a 
circle, not opposite to each other, so as to 
make the arms bulge out thicker in one 
part than another : but the sections of eacli, 
arm lying the same way, so that the arm is 
every where of an equal thickness, and all 
of them terminating at the edge of the es- 
cutcheon like the plain cross. 
ARSENAL, in military affairs, in a large 
and well fortified town, is a spacious build- 
