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in 1640. It contained eleven parifh churches, befides the 
cathedral. The fortifications are the work of the celebra¬ 
ted Vauban, nine leagues north-well; of Cambray, and 44 
north of Paris. Lat.50. 17. N. Ion. 20. 26. E. Ferro. 
AR'RATS, a river of France, which runs into the Ga¬ 
ronne, about two miles north-weft of Auvillard, in the 
department of the Lot and Garonne. 
ARRA'Y,/. [arroy, Fr. arreo, Span, arredo, Ital. from 
reye, Tent, order. It was adopted into the middle Latin, 
mille hominum arraitorum, Knighton.] Order, chiefly of 
war.—The earl, efpying them fcattered near the army, 
fent one to command them to their array. Hayward. Drefs:. 
In this remembrance, Emily ere day 
Arofe, and drefs’d herfelf in rich array. Dryden. 
Array, in law, fignifies the ranking or fetting forth 
of a jury of men impanelled upon a caufe. And when we 
fay to array a panel, that is, to fet forth the men impanel¬ 
led one by another. F. N.B. 157. To challenge the array 
of the panel, is at once to except againft: all the perfons 
arrayed or impanelled, in rcfpedl of partiality, &c. Co. Lit. 
1 s 6. If the fherift be of affinity to any of the parties ; 
or if any one or more of the jurors are returned at the no¬ 
mination of either party ; or for any other partiality; the 
array fhall be quajlied. 
To Array, v. a. \_arroyer , old French.] To put in or¬ 
der. To deck; to drefs ; to adorn the perfon : with the 
particle with or in.— Deck thyfelf now with majefty and 
excellency, and array thyfelf with glory and beauty. 
Jcb, xl. jo. 
Now went forth the morn, 
Such as in higheft heav’n, array'd in gold 
Empyreal. Milton. 
ARRA'YERS, Arraoers, or Arrattores, is tiffed 
in fome ancient ftatutes, for Inch officers as had care of 
the foldiers armour, and faw them duly accoutred in their 
kinds. In fome reigns, commiffioners have been appointed 
for this purpofe. Such w ere the commiffioners of array 
appointed by Charles I. in 1642. 
ARREA'R, adv . [arriere , Fr, behind.] Behind. This 
is the primitive fignification of the word, which, though 
not now in ufe, feems to be retained by Spcnjer : 
To leave with fpeed Atlanta fwift arrear , 
Through forefts wild and unfrequented land 
To chafe the lion, boar, or rugged bear. Fairy Queen. 
Arrear, /.That which remains behind unpaid, tho’ due: 
His boon is giv’n ; his knight has gain’d tire day, 
But loft the prize; th’ arrears are yet to pay. Dry deft. 
It will comfort our grand-children, when they fee a few 
rags hung up in Weftminfter-hall, which coft an hundred 
millions, whereof they are paying the arrears, and boaft- 
j n cr, as beggars do, that their grandfathers were rich. Swift. 
ARREARAGE,/, [from arriere, Fr. behind.] A word 
now little ufed.—Arrearage is the remainder of an account, 
or a fum of money remaining in the hands of an account¬ 
ant ; or, more generally, arty- money unpaid at the due 
time, as arrearage of rent. Cowell, 
ARREA'RANCE, f. The fame with arrear. 
ARREA'U, a town in prance, in the department of the 
Higher Pyrenees, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
tr\Ct of'La Barthe-de-Neftes, thirteen miles fouth-eaft of 
Bamieres en Bigorre, and twenty-three fouth-fouth-eaft 
of Tarbes. 
AR'RENS, a town of France, in the department of the 
Higher Pyrenees, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
triel of Argellez, on the Garonne, eight miles fouth-weft 
of Argellez. 
ARRENTA'TION,/. [from arrendar. Span, to farm.] 
Is, in the foreft law, the licenfing an owner of lands in the 
foreft, to inclofe them with a low hedge and fmall ditch, 
in eonfideration of a yearly rent. 
ARREPTI'TIOU S, adj. [arreptus, Lat.] Snatched away : 
(from ad and repp. ] Crept in privily. 
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ARREST', f. \_arrcjlim, Lat. from arreler, Fr. to flop, 
Or ftay.] A reftraint of a man’s perfon, obliging him to be 
obedient to the law : and it is the execution of the command 
of fome court of record, or officer of juftice. An arrejl is the 
beginning of imprifonment, where a man is firft taken, and 
reftrained of his liberty, by power or colour of a warrant; 
alio it fignifies the decree of a court, by which a perfon is 
arrejled. 1 Shop. Abr. 299. Arrefts are either in civil or crimi¬ 
nal cafes. Am arreft in a civil caufe is the apprehending or 
reftraining one’s perfon by procels in execution of the com¬ 
mand of fome court, or officer of juftice. There are feveral 
ftatutes, fecuring the liberty of the fubjedt, againft unlawful 
arrefis and fuits. See Magna Charta , c. 29. 3 Edw. I. c. 35. 
Some perfons are alfo privileged from arrefts, viz. peersol" 
the realm, members of parliament, pecreffies by birth, peers 
of Scotland, a peerefs by marriage, members of convoca¬ 
tion adtually attending thereon, bifhops, ambaffiadors, or the 
domeftic fervant of an ambaifador, really and bond fide in 
that capacity, the king’s fervants, marflial, warden of the- 
Fleet, clerks, attornies, and all other perfons attending the 
courts of juftice, clergymen performing divine fervice, and- 
not merely flaying in the church with a fraudulent defign; 
fuitors, vvitnelles fubpoenaed, and other perfons neceflarily’ 
attending any court of record upon bufinefs ; a bankrupt 
coming to furrender, or within forty-two days after his 
furrender; witnelfes properly fummoned before commif¬ 
fioners of bankrupt, or other commiffioners under the great 
feal, but not creditors coming to prove their debts; heirs, 
executors, or adminiftratoi-s ; except on perfonal conti'adls 
by themfelves, or in cafes of devafiavit ; failor or volun¬ 
teer foldier, (unlefs the debt is twenty pounds.) Officers 
of courts are allowed thefe privileges only where they fue 
or are filed in their own right; not if as executors or ad- 
miniftrators, nor in joint actions. Hob. 177. Dyer, 24. p.130. 
2 Sid. 157. Latch. 199. Godb. 10. 2 Rol. Abr. 274. But this 
privilege does not extend to Irifh or other foreign peers, 
or to pecreffes by marriage, if they afterwards intermarry 
with commoners. And though the fervants of peers, ne- 
ceffarily employed about their perfons and eftates, could 
not formerly be arrefted ; yet this privilege feems to have 
been taken away by the ftatute 10 Geo. III. c.50. f. 3. 
Jacob’s Law Did. 
Members of corporations aggregate, and hundredors, 
not being liable to a capias, cannot be arrefted in-their 
corporate capacity, or on the ftatutes of hue and cry, &c. 
Corporations mull be made to appear by dijiringas; Finch . 
353, ^Salh.4.6. In an adtion againft hufband and wife, 
the hulband alone is liable to be arrefted, and diall not be 
difeharged until he have put in bail for himfelf and wife; 
and, if ihe is arrefted, ffie fhall be difeharged on common 
bail. 1 Term. Rfp.486: iSalh.115. A clerk of the court 
ought not to be arrefted for any thing which is not crimi¬ 
nal, becaufe he is fuppofed to be always prefent in court 
to anfwer the plaintiff. 1 Lill. 94. Arrefts are not to be 
made within the liberty of the king’s palace ; nor may the 
king’s fervants be arrefted in any place, without notice firft 
given to the lord-chamberlain, that he remove them, or 
make them pay their debts. There is this difference be¬ 
tween arrefts in civil and criminal cafes : that none fhall 
be arrefted for debt, trefpafs, &c. or other caufe of adtion, 
but by virtue of a precept or commandment out of fome 
court; but for treafon, felony, or bi'each of the peace, 
any man may arreft without warrant or precept. Terms de 
Ley, 54. 
The abufes of gaolers and fheriff’s officers towards their 
prifoners are well reftrained and guarded againft by ftatute 
3iGeo. II. c.28. the chief provifions of whichare, thatan 
officer fhall not carry his prifoner to any tavern, See. with¬ 
out his confent, nor charge him for any liquor but fuch as 
he fhall freely call for, nor demand for caption or attend¬ 
ance any other than his legal fee, nor exadt any gratuity- 
money, nor cany any prifoner to jail within twenty-four 
hours after his arreft, unlefs the prifoner refufes to go to 
fome fafe houfe 'except his own) of his own choofing. Nor 
fhall any officer take for the diet, lodging, or expences, of 
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