Caput
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
A head; a person. A chief; beginning, principal. Caput anni: the first day of the year. Caput baroniae: a nobleman's mansion-house, which descended to the eldest daughter if no son. Caput lupinum (a wolf-head): outlaw. In capite: in chief; directly of the King or chief lord. Capitis deminutio: loss of condition or rank. Car, fr. For; because. Carentant: forasmuch.