Caption
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[Lat. captio, q. v.] In practice. A taking, seizure or arrest of a person.
2 Salk. 498.
The word in this sense is now obsolete. A certificate of the taking of a commission, subscribed by the commissioners.
Blount.
The title or heading of a legal document, as a bill in equity, an indictment, &c.
1 Ld. Raym. 648. Marshall, C. J., 8 Peters' R. 149. Wharton's Am. Crim. Law, 63.
The word in this sense seems rather to be derived from caput.