[ad. L. latitātiōn-em, f. latitāre to lie hid.] The fact of lying concealed; hiding, lurking.
1623. Cockeram, Latitation, a lurking.
1629. Jackson, Creed, VI. II. xxxviii. § 6. The women of Hungary … buried their children alive lost their timorous outcries might bewray the place of their abode or latitation.
1875. Poste, Gaius, IV. Comm. (ed. 2), 510. Avoidance of in jus vocatio by latitation or keeping house rendered a defendant liable to manus injectio.
