PERICULO PETENTIS

periculo petentis (p[schwa]-rik-y[schwa]-loh p[schwa]-ten-tis). [Latin] Hist. At the risk of the person seeking. • A private person was liable in damages for a judicial warrant wrongfully issued at that person’s insistence. “[A] creditor seeking a warrant for the apprehension of his debtor as in meditatione fugae, obtains it periculo petentis, and he, not the judge,