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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In private; in chambers. IN CAPITA (Lat.) To or by the heads or polls. Thus, where persons succeed to estates in capita, they take each an equal share. So, where a challenge to a jury is in capita, it is to the polls, or to the jurors individually, as opposed to a challenge to the array.
3 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 361.
Per capita is also used. IN CAPITE (Lat.) In chief. A tenant in capite was one who held directly of the crown (2 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 60), whether by knight's service or socaga But tenure in capite was of two kinds, — general and special; the first from the king (caput regni), the second from a lord (caputfeudi). A holding of an honor in king's lands, but not immediately of him, was yet a holding in capite.
Kitch. Cts. 127; Dyer, 44; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 5. Abolished by 12 Car. II. c. 24.
IN CASU EXTREMAE NECESSITATIS omnia sunt communla. In cases of extreme necessity, everything is in common.
Hale, P. C. 54; Broom, Leg. Max. 1.
IN CASU PROVISO (Law Lat.) In a (or the) case provided. In tali casu editum et provisum, in such case made and provided.
Towns. PL 164, 165.