Cepit

Lat. [from capere, to take.] Li pleading. (Took, or he took.) The emphatic word formerly used in writs of trespass for taking personal property, and in declaralions in replevin and trespass; and hterally translated in the modem forms of those pleadings. See infra. The Latm word is still used as descriptive of the action in certain cases. Thus, m replevin, when the actjpn b for the talcing only, it is said to be " in the cepit:' 3 Hil Vs N. T, Bep. 2B2, 848. CEPIT ET ABDUXrr. L. Lat. In old English practice. ([He] took and led away.) The emphatic words in writs of trespass where the writ was for live things, as anifnids.

Reg, Grig. 92, 163.

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S, 86 A, note. Id. 88 B.