ARRENOTOKOUS

arrenotokous, arrenotoky (from gr. [greek: arraen], male, and [greek: tokos] from [greek: tiktein], to beget), biological terms proposed by leuckart and eduard von siebold to denote those parthenogenetic females which produce male young, while "thelytokous" and "thelytoky" would denote their producing female young. arrest (fr. _arrester, arreter_, to stop or stay), the restraint of a man's person, for the purpose of compelling him to be obedient to the law. it is defined to be the execution of the command of some court of record or officer of justice. arrests in england are either in civil or in criminal cases. i. _in civil cases._--the arrest must be by virtue of a precept or order out of some court, and must be effected by corporal seizing or touching the defendant's body, or as directed by the writ, _capias et attachias_, take and catch hold of. and if the defendant make his escape it is a _rescous_, or rescue, and attachment may be had against him, and the bailiff may then justify the breaking open of the house in which he is, to carry him away. _arrests on mesne process_ (see process), before judgment obtained, were abolished by the debtors act 1869, s. 6; an exception, however, is made in cases in which the plaintiff proves, at any time before final judgment, by evidence on oath to the satisfaction of a judge of one of the superior courts, that he has a good cause of action to the amount of