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Cepit






Cepit

Took. This is a technical word, which cannot be supplied by any other in an indictment for larceny.

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Technical
That which properly belongs to an art.

Word
Construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.

Indictment
Criminal law, practice. A written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, presented to, and preferred upon oath or affirmation, by a grand jury legally convoked.

Larceny
Criminal law. The wrongful and fraudulent taking and carrying away, by one person, of the mere personal goods, of another, from any place, with a felonious intent to convert them to his, the taker's use, and make them his property, without the consent of the owner.



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Cepi
A Latin word signifying I have taken.

Cepi corpus
Practice. The return which the sheriff, or otherproper officer, makes when he has arrested a defendant by virtue of a capias.

Cepit et abduxit
He took and led away.

Cepit et asportavit
Took and carried away.

Cepit in alio loco
Pleadings. He took in another place.



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Relating to the centre, or placed in the centre

Centumviri
Civil law. The citizens of Rome were distributed into thirty-five tribes, and three persons out of each tribe were elected judges, who were called centumviri, although they were one hundred and five in number.

Century
Civil law. One hundred.

Cepi
A Latin word signifying I have taken.

Cepi corpus
Practice. The return which the sheriff, or otherproper officer, makes when he has arrested a defendant by virtue of a capias.

Cepit

Cepit et abduxit
He took and led away.

Cepit et asportavit
Took and carried away.

Cepit in alio loco
Pleadings. He took in another place.

Certificate
Practice. A writing made in any court, and properly authenticated, to give notice to another court of anything done therein; or it is a writing by which an officer or other person bears testimony that a fact has or has not taken place.

Certificate of citizenship
Identity document proving U.S. citizenship. Certificates of citizenship are issued to derivative citizens and to persons who acquired U.S. citizenship (see definitions for Acquired and Derivative Citizenship).

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