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Posse comitatus
Posse comitatus Pos"se com`i*ta"tus [L. posse to be able, to have power + LL. comitatus a county, from comes, comitis, a count. See County, and Power.] 1. (Law) The power of the county, or the citizens who may be summoned by the sheriff to assist the authorities in suppressing a riot, or executing any legal precept which is forcibly opposed. --Blackstone. 2. A collection of people; a throng; a rabble. [Colloq.] Note: The word comitatus is often omitted, and posse alone used. ``A whole posse of enthusiasts.' --Carlyle. As if the passion that rules were the sheriff of the place, and came off with all the posse. --Locke.

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- Look up comitatus or posse comitatus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Comitatus may refer to: Comitatus (warband), a Germanic warband who follow a leader...
- peace, and had the posse comitatus called out to expel them. The powers of sheriffs in England and Wales for posse comitatus were codified by section...
- sufficient bipartisan support to p**** what became the Posse Comitatus Act. The original Posse Comitatus Act referred exclusively to the United States Army. The...
- Look up posse comitatus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Posse comitatus is the authority of a law officer to conscript any able-bodied males to ****ist...
- The Posse Comitatus (Latin, "force of the county") is a loosely organized American far-right extremist social movement which began in the late 1960s....
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- U.S. The Insurrection Act provides a statutory exception to the Posse Comitatus Act (1878) that limits the president's deploying the U.S. military to...
- County (German: Komitat Maramuresch; Hungarian: Máramaros vármegye; Latin: Comitatus Maramarosiensis; Romanian: Comitatul Maramureș; Rusyn: Комітат Марамарош;...
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- ****istance from the comitatus. Limitanei regiments often joined the comitatus for specific campaigns, and were sometimes retained by the comitatus long-term with...