Cataneus
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. In feudal law. A tenant in capite, or in chief.
Spelman.
A captain. Id. Considered by Spelman as an abbreviation or contraction of capitaneus, just as catalla, or catalia was of capitalia.
See Capitaneus.