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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

capias

[Latin "that you take"] Any of various types of writs that require an officer to take a named defendant into custody. - Also termed writ of capias; body execution.

capias ad audiendum judicium

[Latin "that you take to hear the judgment"] In a misdemeanor case, a writ issued to bring the defendant to hear the judgment to be imposed after having failed to appear.

capias ad computandum

[Latin "that you take for computation"] Hist. A writ issued when a debtor has failed to appear and make account after losing in an action of account render. See ACCOUNTING (3).

capias ad respondendum

[Latin "that you take to answer"] A writ commanding the sheriff to take the defendant into custody to ensure that the defendant will appear in court. - Abbr. ca. resp.

capias ad satisfaciendum

[Latin "that you take to satisfy"] Hist. A postjudgment writ commanding the sheriff to imprison the defendant until the judgment is satisfied. - Abbr. ca. say.

capias extendi facias

[Latin "take for extending"] Hist. A writ of execution issued against one who is indebted to the Crown, commanding the sheriff to arrest the debtor.

capias in withernam

[Law Latin "taking again"] A writ authorizing the sheriff to seize the goods or cattle of a wrongful distrainor. See wITHERNAM.

capias pro fine

[Latin "that you take for the fine"] A writ for the arrest of a person who had not paid an imposed fine. - Also termed capiatur pro fine.

capias utlagatum

[Latin "you take the outlaw"] A writ commanding the arrest of an outlawed person

writ of capias

See CAPIAS.