Capitula

Collections of laws and ordinances drawn up under heads or divisions. Spelman. The term is used in the civil and old English law, and applies to ecclesiastical law also. Du Cange.

Collections of laws and ordinances drawn up under heads or divisions. Spelman, Gloss. The term is used in the civil and old English law, and applies to the ecclesiastical law also, meaning chapters or assemblies of ecclesiastical persons. Du Cange. The Royal and Imperial Capitula were the edicts of the Frankish Kings and Emperors. They are distinguishable from the leges and probably had a less permanent effect. They might, by general consent, become a part of the leges — legions addita. CAPITULA CORON/E. Specific and minute schedules, or capitula itineris.

Collections of laws and ordinances drawn up under heads of divisions. Spelman. The term is used in the civil and old English law, and applies to the ecclesiastical law also, mcaning chapters or assemblies of ecclesiastical persons. Du Cange.

— Capitula coronæ. Chapters of the crown. Chapters or heads of inquiry, resembling the oapitula itineris, (infra) but of a more minute character.

— Capitula itineris. Articles of inquiry which were anciently delivered to the justices in eyre when they set out on their circuits. These schedules were designed to include all possible varieties of crime. 2 Reeve, Eng. Caw, p. 4, c. 8.

— Capitula ruralia. Assemblies or chapters, held by rural deans and parochial clergy, within the precinct of every deanery; which at first were every three weeks, afterwards once a month, and subsequently once a quarter. Cowell.

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In feudal and old ecclesiastical law. Chapters or assemblies of ecclesiastical persons; collections of laws or ordinances, ters or heads of inquiry, resembling the capitula itineris, but more minute, delivered in 1194. Capitula de Jiideeis: chapters or articles concerning the Jews; articles of inquiry relating to the Jews, delivered to the justices itinerant in the reign of Richard I., directing them to adjudge what revenue should be paid by the Jews to the king for protection, license to trade and the like. Capitula itineris: chapters of the eyre; chaptei-s, articles, heads or schedules of inquiry, delivered to the justices itinerant in behalf of the crown for their direction, and read and given in charge by them to the juries from the various hundreds at the opening of the eyre.

Lat. Tplur. of capitulum, q. v.] In old ecclesiastical law. Collections of laws or ordinances, {legum canones,) drawn up under certain divisions or heads, (constitutorum capita, i. e. summas continentia.) Spelman. Chapters or assemblies of ecclesiastical persons. See Capitulum.