posse comitatus

Did me and you have a search warrant or a posse comitatus when we rounded up them six Mexican cow thieves down in Hidalgo?

No citizen is bound to an active execution of this law, unless called upon as one of the posse comitatus.

When he arrived, he called for a posse comitatus to assist him in handling the situation; but no one responded.

The Baron who put John de Northwode and his posse comitatus to flight left a daughter, his sole heiress.

Straightway the magistrate hastened to the post-office, and swore in, as a posse comitatus, the first four men that he met.