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Definition of the day : « posse comitatus »

  • As in SWAT team : noun special weapons and tactics team
Example sentences :
  • 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