Captator
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Bouvier (1839)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A person who obtains a gift or legacy through artifice. Rapalje & L. CAPTIO (Lat. from capere, to take).
In old English law and practice. A taking or seizure of a thing, as an animal. Bracton, fol. 156. Est omnis captio justa vel injusta. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 44, § 1. Bene cognoscit captionem, (he) well avows the taking. 1 Salk. 3. A taking or seizure of land. Dies captionis indorsari debet in tergo brevis, the day of the taking ought to be indorsed on the back of the writ. Bracton, fol. 365b. A taking or arrest of a person. Reg. Orig. 278b; Bracton, fol. 145b. Injusta captio et injusta detentio. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 42, § 1. A taking or holding of a court. Captio assisae, the taking of the assize. Bracton, fol. Ill, 202b. A taking or receiving. Homagii captio, taking of homage. Bracton, fol. 16.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
<A person who obtains a gift or legacy through artifice.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
French law. The name which is sometimes given to him who by flattery and artifice endeavours to surprise testators and induce them to give legacies or devises, or to make him some other gift. Dict. de Jur.