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Posse (family)
Posse is a shortened form of posse comitatus, a group of people summoned to assist law enforcement. The term is also used colloquially to mean a group of friends or associates. Posse may also refer to: Arts and entertainment * Posse (1975 film), ''Posse'' (1975 film), US Western film produced, directed and starring Kirk Douglas * Posse (1993 film), ''Posse'' (1993 film), US revisionist Western film directed by and starring Mario Van Peebles * "Posse (I Need You on the Floor)", a 2001 single by German band Scooter * Posse cut, a type of Hip Hop song with four or more rappers, in which each verse is sung by a different person * Posse mit Gesang, a form of German musical drama * Posse (band), an American indie rock band started in 2010 in Seattle * Young Posse, a South Korean girl group started in 2023. Other uses * Posse (horse), a thoroughbred racehorse * Posse (surname), including a list of people with the name * Posse, Goiás, a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Posse Comitatus
The ''posse comitatus'' (from the Latin for "power of the county/community/guard"), frequently shortened to posse, is in common law a group of people mobilized by the conservator of peace – typically a reeve, sheriff, chief, or another special/regional designee like an officer of the peace potentially accompanied by or with the direction of a justice or ajudged parajudicial process given imminence of actual damage – to suppress lawlessness, defend the people, or otherwise protect the place, property, and public welfare (see also ethical law enforcement (police by consent etc.)). The ''posse comitatus'' as an English jurisprudentially defined doctrine dates back to ninth-century England and the campaigns of Alfred the Great (and before in ancient custom and law of locally martialed forces) simultaneous thereafter with the officiation of sheriff nomination to keep the regnant peace (known as " the queen/king's peace")Justus Caususis everpresently necessary in establishing, f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
