Verum te sive valetudo, quod maxime crediderim, sive quid aliud retraxit, persuasissimum hoc habeo, nihil te a rationibus reipublicæ divellere potuisse, nisi vidisses quantum libertatis conservatorem, quam firmum atque fidum Anglicanæ rei columen ac munimentum in successore tuo relinqueres '(ed. 1654, pp. 147-8).    From Wordnik.com.  [Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles] Reference

Then the retraxit is in order and the honorable adjustment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903,] Reference

To ditto for noli prosequis, discontinuance, and retraxit.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of John Bull] Reference

This proved satisfactory and goes to show how small a retraxit will satisfy wounded honor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903,] Reference

A retraxit was demanded or a fight, and he promptly responded that he would now say that the gentleman was fit to carry -- offal to a bear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903,] Reference

A matter of great nicety as to the time when the retraxit shall be made.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903,] Reference

An award that a fuit in Chancery fhall be dif - cuffed, a final award; fo if the arbitrators award a retraxit, and award that one fhall not profecute nor proceed in fuch a term, feems to be good, but an award that one of the parties fhall be nonfuit is not good, becaufe the party may begin again; fo that each party fhall difcontinue their actions which they have againft each other; for this is not a final determination.    From Wordnik.com.  [The law of a justice of peace and parish officer: containing all the acts of Parliament at large concerning them, and the cases determined on those acts in the Court of King's Bench. To which is added, a collection of precedents revised and settled by persons of eminence in the law; comprising a greater variety than any other work of this kind extant] Reference