Capitula Itineris

Schedules of inquiry delivered to the justices in eyre before

Schedules of inquiry delivered to the justices in eyre before setting out on their circuits, and which were intended to embrace all possible crimes. CAPITULA DE JUD/EIS. A register of mortgages made to the Jews. 2 Bla. Com. 343; Crabb, Eng. Law 130.

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.

Defined under Capitula in Black's Law Dictionary.

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

Lat. [L. Fr. chapitres de eyre.] In old ^English practice. Chapters of the eyre. Chapters, articles, heads or schedules of inquiry, delivered to the justices itinerant, {in itinere, in eyre,) in behalf of the crown, for their direction, and read or given in charge by them to the juries from the various hundreds, at the opening of the eyre. Bract. fol. 116, 109. Britt. c. 2, 3. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 20. 1 Beeves* Hist. Eng. Law, 62, 201. 2 Id. 4, 6. Bracton has ffiven the form of one of these capitula at length. It consists of fifty heads, embracing every variety of crime and misdemeanor to which the attention of the jury could be directed. Bract, fol. 116 — 118. According to Britton, a copy of these chapters had to be delivered to each dozen or twelve, as he calls the jury; (a chescun dozeyne soient les chapitres severaument liveres,) and upon these their presentments were made, each head being separately answered to. Britt. c. 2. Bract. fol. 116. Hence doubtless has originated the modem practice of charging the grand jury at the opening of the higher criminal courts. The records of these inquisitions have been preserved in the Rolls officially denominated " the Hundred Rolls.** Hubback*s Evid. of Succession, 603.