See also obstruction of justice. The failure to provide evidence which is required or pursuant to a subpoena. … [Read more...]

Holding part of an employee's paycheck to pay Social Security, Medicare and income taxes. … [Read more...]

To deduct or hold something back. … [Read more...]

practice. The name of a writ which issues on the return of elongata to an alias or pluries writ of replevin, by which the sheriff is commanded to take the defendant's own goods which may be found in his bailiwick, and keep them safely, not to deliver them to the plaintiff until such time as the defendant chooses to submit himself, and allow the distress, and the whole of it, to … [Read more...]

An apostate, or perfidious renegade. Cowell. … [Read more...]