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Caption

1. The introductory part of a court paper stating the names of the parties, the name of the court, the docket or file number, and the title of the action. Cf. STYLE (1). 2. The arrest or seizure of a person by legal process.

Manucaption

See MAINPRISE.

Recaption

1. At common law, lawful seizure of another's property for a second time to secure the performance of a duty; a second distress. See DISTRESS. 2. Peaceful retaking, without legal process, of one's own property that has been wrongfully taken.

Usucaption

n. Civil law. The acquisition of ownership by prescription. -Also termed usucapio (yoo-za-kay-pee-oh); usucapion (yoo-za-kay-pee-on or -an). - usucapt, vb. See PRESCRIPTION (1). "There is no principle in all law which the moderns, in spite 6f its beneficial character, have been so loath to adopt and to carry to its legitimate consequences as that which was known to the Romans as Usucapion, and which has descended to modern jurisprudence under the name of Prescription." Henry S. Maine, Ancient Law 236 (17th ed. 1901).

de manucaptione

n. [Law Latin "of manucaption"] Hist. A writ ordering a sheriff to release on sufficient bail an accused felon whose initial offer of bail had been rejected.

writ of recaption

Hist. A writ allowing a plaintiff to recover goods and damages from a defendant who makes a second distress while a replevin action for a previous distress is pending. See RECAPTION