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Complete Definition of "posse comitatus"

English

Etymology
L. posse from possum, to be able + comitatus, the court of a king

Noun

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posse comitatus

  1. (British, in medieval times) the authority of a sheriff to conscript able-bodied men to help keep the peace, or arrest a felon
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