Capitalis
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. [from caput, head or life.] Capital; affecting or involving life, drimm capitale; a capital crime. Bract, fol.
120 b, 101 b.
In the civil law, offences punishable by the loss of civil rights, (amissio civitatis), interdiction of fire and water, banishment (deportatio,) or labor in the mines (metallum) were also termed capital.
Dig, 50. 16. 103. Inst. 4t. 18. 2.