Cape
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In English practice. A judicial writ touching a plea of lands or tenements, ‘divided into cape magnum, or the grand cape, which lay before appearance to summon the tenant to answer the default, and also over to the demandant; the cape ad vatentiam Was @ species of grand cape; and cape parvum, or petit cape, alter appearance or view granted, summoning the tenant to answer the default only.
Termes de la Ley; 3 Steph. Comm. 606, note.