Caption
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In practice
That part of 8 leval instrument, as a commission, indictment, ete., which shows whtre, when, and by what authority it is taken, found, or executed. When used with reference to sn indictment, caption siguifies the style or preamble or com- Ineucement of the indictment; when used with reference to a commission, it signifies the certificate to which the commissioners’ names are subscribed, declaring when and where it was executed. brown. The caption of a pleading, deposition, or olher paper connected with a case in court, is the heading or introductory clause which shows the naines of the parties, name of the court, number of the case on the docket or ealendar, ete. Also signifies a taking, seizure, or arrest ofa person.
2 Salk. 498.
The word in this sense is now obsolete in English law. order, given to him by what are called “letters of horning,” to paya debt or to perforin some act enjuined thereby.
Bell.