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Definition of Posse comitatus

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.

Meaning of Posse comitatus from wikipedia

- The posse comitatus (from the Latin for "power of the county"), frequently shortened to posse, is in common law a group of people mobilized to suppress...
- The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385, original at 20 Stat. 152) signed on June 18, 1878, by President Rutherford B...
- The Posse Comitatus (Latin, "force of the county") is a loosely organized American far-right extremist social movement which began in the late 1960s....
- 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...
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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...
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- appeared in 1971 within the Posse Comitatus as a teaching of Christian Identity minister William Potter Gale. The Posse Comitatus was a far-right anti-government...