"Capias" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
I^at. “That you take." The general name for several species of writs, the common characteristic of which is that they require the officer to take the body of the defendant into custody; they are writs of at-tachmeut or arrest
A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body
of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; -- also called writ
of capias.
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To Rntisfy. The emphatic words of the writ of capias ad satisfaciendum, which requires the sheriff to take the person …
Read the complete definitionL. Fr. To take. Rref 4 prendre la terre, a writ to take the land. Fet Ass. { 51. A …
Read the complete definitionTo take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a …
Read the complete definitionTo take or apprehend by com-mandment of a writ or precept. Buckeye Pipe-Line Co. v. Fee, 62 ohio St. 543, …
Read the complete definitionThe writ or percept commanding such seizure or taking.
Read the complete definitionThe act or process of taking, apprehending, or seizing persons or property, by virtue of a writ, summons, or other …
Read the complete definitionAn obsolete writ that lay where a house was within a borough, for rent issuing out of the same, and …
Read the complete definitionEnglish law. A writ to a justice of the common pleas, or other, who has power to take a tine, …
Read the complete definitionwrit for taking cattle in wlth-ernam. A writ which lay where the sheriff returned to a plurics writ of replevin …
Read the complete definitionwrit to take caution or security. A writ which anciently lay against a bishop who held an excommunicated person ln …
Read the complete definition(we have given power.) In English practice. A writ or commission issuing out of chancery, eni-powering the persons named therein …
Read the complete definitionA writ prohibiting the taking of fines for beau pleader. Reg. orig. 179
Read the complete definition(Lat. For taking a man in wither-nam.) A writ to take a man who had carried away a bondman or …
Read the complete definitionA writ -which lay for one arrested in a personal action and committed to prison under a mis-take as to …
Read the complete definitionwrit for taking a moderate amercement A writ, founded on Magna Charta, (c. 14,) which lay for one who was …
Read the complete definitionA writ which lay where there was a dis-pute as to the boundaries of two adjacent lordships or towns, directed …
Read the complete definitionwrit of rescue or res-cous. A writ which lay where cattle dis-trained, or persons arrested, were rescued from those taking …
Read the complete definitionA writ which lay for a person who was prevented from taking toll. Reg. orig. 103
Read the complete definitionTo put into execution; to cause to take effect; to make effective; as, to enforce a writ, a judgment, or …
Read the complete definitionA writ that lay for taking cattle of one who has conveyed the cattle of another out of the county, …
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