Captio
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. [from capere, to take.] In old English law and practice. A taking or seizure of a thing, as an animal. Bract. fol.
166.
Bene cognoscit captionem; he well avows the taking.
1 Salk. 3.
A taking or seizure of land. Dies captionis indorsari debet in tergo brevis; the day of the taking ought to be indorsed on the back of the writ. Bract. fol.
366 b.
A taking or arrest of a person.
Reg. Orig. 278 b.
Bract, fol.
146 b.
A taking or holding of a court. Captio assises; the taking of the assise. Bract. fol.
111, 202 b.
A taking or receiving. Homagii captio; taking of homage. Id. fol.
16.