Caput
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A head; the head of a person; the whole person; the life of a person; one’s personality; status; civil condition.
At common law
A head. Caput comitatés, the head of the county; the sheriff; the king.
Spelman.
A person; a life. The upper part of a town.
Cowell.
A castle.
Spelman.
In the civil law. It signilied a person’s civil condition or status, and among the Romans consisted of three component parts or elements,—iiberias, liberty; céivitas, citizenship; and familia, family.