Accapitare
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
ACAPITARE, or ACAPtare (Law Lat.) From caput, head, or chief. (1) To pay homage to a chief lord, on becoming his vassal. Bracton, fol.
78n; Fleta, lib. 3, c.
16, § 6, (2) To acknowledge the sovereignty of a chief lord in special cases, as against a mesne; to attorn (acapitare et se atturnare). Bracton, fol.
389a; Fleta, lib. 3, c. 16, § 38; Id. lib. 6, c.
28, § 1. (3) To attorn to another person than the chief lord, and in derogation of his rights. Fleta, lib.
2, c. 50, § 16.
ACCEDAS AD CURIAM (Lat. that you go to court).
In English law
An original writ issuing out of chancery and directed to the sheriff, for the purpose of removing a replevin suit from the hundred court or court baron before one of the superior courts of law. It directs the sheriff to go to the lower court, and there cause the ACCEDAS AD VtCE COM ITEM (Lat. that you go to the sheriff).
In English law
A writ directed to the coroner, commanding him to deliver a writ to the sheriff, who suppresses a pone which has been delivered to him, which commands the latter officer to return the pone.