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Stimatio Capitis

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

In Saxon law. The estimation or valuation of the head; the price or value of a man, By the laws of Athelstan, the life of every man, not excepting that of the king himself, was estimated at a certain price, which was called the ere, or estimatio capitis.

Crabb, Eng. Law, o, 4.

Zistimatio precteriti delicti ex postremo facto nunquam crescit. The weight of a past offense is never increased by a subsequent fact.

Bacon.