Capitalia

Captalia. L. Lat. [plur. of capitale, captale, q. v.] In old European law. Any kind of goods moveable or immoveable, but properly that kind which consists in animals, from whose heads (capita) the things themselves were sometimes called capita, sometimes capitalia, and by contraction, captalia and catalia; whence the law term catalla, chattels. Spelman. Dominica capitalia celata pro furto habeantur; the concealing of the lord's beasts, or chattels, shall be considered as theft. LL. Hen. I. c. 14.