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Synonyms for posse comitatus
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : pos-ee kom-i-tah-tuh s, -tey- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɒs i ˌkɒm ɪˈtɑ təs, -ˈteɪ- |
Définition of posse comitatus
- As in SWAT team : noun special weapons and tactics team
- The marshal then summoned a posse comitatus of two thousand men.
- Extract from : « Union and Democracy » by Allen Johnson
- The door opened, and the posse comitatus entered with the prisoner.
- Extract from : « My Miscellanies, Vol. 2 (of 2) » by Wilkie Collins
- The posse comitatus was also summoned, and it quickly responded.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of Orange Jacobs » by Orange Jacobs
- We must call out the Posse Comitatus, and sail with them bodily.
- Extract from : « Westward Ho! » by Charles Kingsley
- It also held that the organized military could be summoned and used by a civil officer as a part of the posse comitatus.
- Extract from : « The Middle Period 1817-1858 » by John William Burgess
- No citizen is bound to an active execution of this law, unless called upon as one of the posse comitatus.
- Extract from : « Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis, Esq., on the Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave » by Various
- This was the Posse Comitatus, the force of the county, and was under the command of the sheriff.
- Extract from : « Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages » by Edward Lewes Cutts
- It was at once resolved to direct the sheriffs to raise the posse comitatus.
- Extract from : « London and the Kingdom - Volume III » by Reginald R. Sharpe
- That was all he said; and as for thinking, he had the posse comitatus of seven counties to think of.
- Extract from : « Hereward, The Last of the English » by Charles Kingsley
- Did me and you have a search warrant or a posse comitatus when we rounded up them six Mexican cow thieves down in Hidalgo?
- Extract from : « Sixes and Sevens » by O. Henry
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