Captator
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
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.