(127) one hundred square perches, of eighteen ment, &c. Co. Litt. 263 a. See Arraigner, feet each, or about an acre. Spelman, voc. Ad rationem ponere. Arpennis. But the quantity varied in different provinces. Id. (128) Cowell supposes the indictment to him, and demanding of him his plea, (guilty or not guilty,) and entering it accordingly. 4 Steph. Com. 392. Brande. According to Lord Coke, this was otherwise called astitution, (q. v.) Co. Litt. 262 b. cordingly been adopted. arraign to be formed from the Fr. arranger, to set or put a thing in order, or in its place, answering somewhat to the modern word arrange. The same derivation is adopted by the author of the Termes de la Ley. Lord Coke says it is from the Fr. arraigner, to order, or set in the right place. See supra. And see Astitution. Spelman, who is very copious in his illustration of the subject, is confident of the derivation of arraign from the old Latin word arramare, corrupted into arraniare (the usual Latin form,) by the very slight and easy change of m into ni. This opinion is remarkably confirmed by the authority of Bracton, who uses arramare frequently and without variation, applying it to assises and other judicial proceedings, but in no instance to persons. Si-arramaverit super eum assisam. Bract. fol. 18. Ad assisam quam A. arramavit versus B. Id. fol. 110 b. See more under Arramare. There seems to be no doubt that this was the original form of the word, as applied to proceedings, at least as used in English law, although in the Register it is invariably written arrainare. In assisa quam arrainavit versus N. Reg. Orig. 198. See more under Arrainare. The French arrainer, or arrayner, occurs in Britton with the same application to assises. Si le fitz doit arrainer cest assise vers ascun. Britt. c. 70. Si ambideux eyent arrainy assise. Id. ibid. See Arrainer. In one passage the same author uses arener, in its modern sense, as applied to persons. La soient arenes par le visconte; they shall be arraigned there (in court) by the sheriff. Id. c. 4. But the word seems not to have been generally used in this sense until a later period. For further illustration of the original meaning of arraign, see Arramare. ᎪᎡᎡ ( 129 ) a criminal originally was arraigned, (to use the modern word,) he was allowed to choose in what way he would be tried, and when he had made his choice, and openly proclaimed it at the bar, in answer to the question, "How wilt thou be tried?" he was said arramare, and to be thereupon arramatus, (afterwards arrainatus, or arraigned.) This opinion has much to sustain it in the ancient practice of the courts as illustrated by Spelman, but is not easily reconcilable with the fact that the term arraign, in its application to criminal proceedings, has always been exclusively used to denote the act of the court, and not that of the party. As to the meaning of the expression assisam arramare, so frequent in Bracton, there is less room for doubt, as that author constantly uses the expression, portare assisam, (to bring an assise) to denote the same thing. Bract. fols. 26, 33, 177, 196 b, 197. It occurs in the same sense in the Year Books. See M. 3 Edw. II. 58, 59. Arramare probably had a technical sense, expressive of some peculiarity of proceeding, which was figuratively used to denote prosecution generally, just as the modern expression, "to file a bill," is daily used to denote the commencement of a suit in equity. ( 130 ) Si aliquis arrectatus fuerit de morte alicujus; if one be charged with the death of any person. Offic. Coronatoris, cited in Spelman, voc. Arrectatus. See record in Hale's Hist. Com. Law, 43. To reckon, esteem or judge. Skene writes it erectare, and cites Quon. Attach. c. de brevibus, 31. rest. (131)