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Cepit

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I. Took, or he took, — the of trespass for taking personal plevin and trespass. The word tion in some cases; as in replevin merely, it is called replevin in or he took; the plea in replevin avow and claim a return. In old English practice. Cepit emphatic words in a writ of tavit, or et abcariavit: took in a writ of trespass for dead