PARATUM HABEO. A return made by the sheriff to a capias ad respondendum,
which signified that he had the defendant ready to bring into court. This
was a fiction where the defendant was at large. Afterwards be was required
by statute to take bail from the defendant, and he returned cepi corpus and
bail bond. But still he might be ruled to bring in the body. 7 Penn. St.
Rep. 535.