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Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Mutt and Jeff. Mutt and Jeff was a long-popular American newspaper comic strip created by cartoonist Bud Fisher in 1907 about two mismatched tinhorns.. It is commonly regarded as the first daily comic strip.
Posse comitatus is the common-law or statute law authority of a county sheriff, or other law officer, to conscript any able-bodied man to assist him in keeping the peace or to pursue and arrest a felon, similar to the concept of the hue and cry. Originally found in English common law, it is generally obsolete; however, it survives in the United States, where it is the law enforcement equivalent of summoning the militia for military purposes.