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prehensio

prĕhensĭo or prensĭo, ōnis, f. [prehendo],
  • a seizing, apprenending.—Lit. (ante-class.): tribuni plebis prensionem habent, the right of arresting any one, Atei. Cap. ap. Gell. 13, 12, 4: in magistratu habent alii vocationem, alii prensionem, Varr. ib. (in Caes. B. C. 2, 9, 6, the true reading is pressionibus).

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