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Accapitare

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Acapitare, Acaptare. L. Lat. [from caput, head, or chief.] To pay homage to a chief lord, on becoming his vassaL Bract, fol.

78 a. 389 a.

Fleta, hb.

2, c. 50.

To pay a re Uef to a chief lord. Id. ibid, Montesquieu, JCsprit des Loix, liv.

31, c. 24, note.