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Cape
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CapeEnglish law. A judicial writ touching a plea of lands and tenements.
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Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Judicial
Belonging, or emanating from a judge, as such.
Writ
An official court document, signed by a judge or bearing an official court seal, which commands the person to whom it is addressed, to do something specific. That "person" is typically either a sheriff (who may be instructed to seize property, for example) or a defendant (for whom the writ is the first notice of formal legal action. In these cases, the writ would command the person to answer the charges laid out in the suit, or else judgment may be made against them in their absence).
Plea
1) Chancery practice. "A plea," says Lord Bacon, speaking of proceedings in courts of equity, "is a foreign matter to discharge or stay the suit." 2) Practice. The defendant's answer by matter of fact, to the plaintiff's declaration.
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Canons of descent or canons of inheritance
The rules which regulate the descent of inheritances; the rules according to which estates are transmitted from ancestor to heir.
Canons of ethics
Standards of ethical conduct for attorneys.
Capacity
This word, in the law sense, denotes some ability, power, qualifi- cation, or competency of persons, natural, or artificial, for the performance of civil acts, depending on their state or condition, as defined or fixed by law; as, the capacity to devise, to bequeath, to grant or convey lands; to take; or to take. and hold lands to make a contract, and the like.
Capax
Latin. Receiving or containing: able, fit for; having capacity.
Capax doli
Capable of committing crime. This is said of one who has sufficient mind and understanding to be made responsible for his actions.
Cape
Capere
Latin. To take, seize; to arrest.
Capers
Vessels of war owned by private persons, and different from ordinary privateers only in size, being smaller.
Capias
Practice. This word, the signification of which is " that you take," is applicable to many heads of practice. Several writs and processes, commanding the sheriff to take the person of the defendant, are known by the name of capias.
Capias ad audiendum judicium
Practice. A writ issued in a case of misdemeanor, after the defendant has appeared and found guilty, and is not present when called.
Capias ad computandum
Practice. A writ issued in the action of account render, upon the judgment quod computet, when the defendant refuses to appear, in his proper person, before the auditors, and enter into his account.
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Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Judicial
Belonging, or emanating from a judge, as such.
Writ
An official court document, signed by a judge or bearing an official court seal, which commands the person to whom it is addressed, to do something specific. That "person" is typically either a sheriff (who may be instructed to seize property, for example) or a defendant (for whom the writ is the first notice of formal legal action. In these cases, the writ would command the person to answer the charges laid out in the suit, or else judgment may be made against them in their absence).
Plea
1) Chancery practice. "A plea," says Lord Bacon, speaking of proceedings in courts of equity, "is a foreign matter to discharge or stay the suit." 2) Practice. The defendant's answer by matter of fact, to the plaintiff's declaration.
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Canons of descent or canons of inheritance
The rules which regulate the descent of inheritances; the rules according to which estates are transmitted from ancestor to heir.
Canons of ethics
Standards of ethical conduct for attorneys.
Capacity
This word, in the law sense, denotes some ability, power, qualifi- cation, or competency of persons, natural, or artificial, for the performance of civil acts, depending on their state or condition, as defined or fixed by law; as, the capacity to devise, to bequeath, to grant or convey lands; to take; or to take. and hold lands to make a contract, and the like.
Capax
Latin. Receiving or containing: able, fit for; having capacity.
Capax doli
Capable of committing crime. This is said of one who has sufficient mind and understanding to be made responsible for his actions.
Cape
Capere
Latin. To take, seize; to arrest.
Capers
Vessels of war owned by private persons, and different from ordinary privateers only in size, being smaller.
Capias
Practice. This word, the signification of which is " that you take," is applicable to many heads of practice. Several writs and processes, commanding the sheriff to take the person of the defendant, are known by the name of capias.
Capias ad audiendum judicium
Practice. A writ issued in a case of misdemeanor, after the defendant has appeared and found guilty, and is not present when called.
Capias ad computandum
Practice. A writ issued in the action of account render, upon the judgment quod computet, when the defendant refuses to appear, in his proper person, before the auditors, and enter into his account.
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