Note 27 — Chapter I · INTENTIONAL INTERFERENCE
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If the bailiff, who has a process against one, says to him when he is on horseback or in a coach, “You are my prisoner; I have a writ against you,” upon which he submits, turns back, or goes with him, though the bailiff never touched him, yet it is an arrest, because he submitted to the process; but if, instead of going with the bailiff, he had gone or fled from him, it could be no arrest, unless the bailiff laid hold of him. Horner v. Battyn, Bull. N. P. 62.