Capias Ad Respondendum
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
in practice. A judicial writ, (usually simply termed a “capius,”) by which actions at law were frequently commenced; and which commands the sheriff to take the defendant, and him safely keep, 30 that he may have his body before the court on a certain day, to answer the plaintiff in the action.
3 31. Comm. 282; 1 Tidd, Pr. 128.
The name of this writ is commonly abbreviated to ea. resp.