Capitula

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In feudal and old ecclesiastical law. Chapters or assemblies of ecclesiastical persons; collections of laws or ordinances, ters or heads of inquiry, resembling the capitula itineris, but more minute, delivered in 1194. Capitula de Jiideeis: chapters or articles concerning the Jews; articles of inquiry relating to the Jews, delivered to the justices itinerant in the reign of Richard I., directing them to adjudge what revenue should be paid by the Jews to the king for protection, license to trade and the like. Capitula itineris: chapters of the eyre; chaptei-s, articles, heads or schedules of inquiry, delivered to the justices itinerant in behalf of the crown for their direction, and read and given in charge by them to the juries from the various hundreds at the opening of the eyre.