Praecipe In Capite
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A writ of chancery which lay (in case of his deforcement) for a tenant holding of the crown in capite, viz., in chief. Magna Charta, c. 24. PRAECIPE QUOD REDDAT (Lat.) Command him to return. An original writ, of which praecipe is the first word, commanding the person to whom it is directed to do a thing, or to show cause why he has not done it. 3 Bl. Comm. 274; Old Nat. Brev. 13. It is as well applied to a writ of right as to other writs of entry and possession. PRAECIPE QUOD TENEAT CONVENtionem. The writ which commenced the action of covenant in fines. Abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 74.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
When one of the king's immediate tenants in captte was deforced, his writ of right was called a writ of "præ-ape in captte."
Defined under Præcipe in Black's Law Dictionary.