Caput

I. A bead; a person; the life of a person; a chief; a beginning; a principal.

In old English law

A head; a beginning; a principal division; the head of a person; the head or upper end of a place; a chief or principal place, house or messuage. Caput anni: the first day of the year. Caput baronite: the castle, n)anor house, or chief seat of a baron. Caput comitatus: the chief seat of an earl. Caput lupinuni: a wolf's head; an outlawed felon, so called because he might be killed, or knocked in the head, like a wolf, if he resisted capture, by any one who might meet him. Caput portus: the head of a port,— the town, i. e., to which it belongs and from which it takes its name. Caput, principium et finis: the head, beginning and terrse: the head In feudal law. A head or chief; the king, comitatns: the head or chief of the titles of an earL Caput feudi vel terraj: In the civil law. A person; a personal was requisite to the capacity for civil which there were three kinds, namely: