Cape

A judicial writ touching a plea of lands and tenements. The writs which bear this name are of two kinds, namely, cape magnum, or grand cape, and cape parvum, or petit cape. The petit cape is so called, not so much on account of the smallness of the writ as of the letter. Fleta, lib.

6, c. 55, § 40.

For the difference between the form and the use of these writs, see 2 Wm. Saund. 45c, 46d; Fleta, lib.

6, c. 55, § 40.

A neck or narrow point of land extending some distance into a body of water. In certain localities in the northern part of England, the word "cape" means the coping of a wall, and also ears of corn broken off in threshing. The word "cape" is sometimes employed A garment or part of a garment used for covering the shoulders of the wearer.

175 111. 222.