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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

cepi

[Latin] Hist. I have taken. ( Cepi was often used in a capias return by an arresting sheriff, as in cepi corpus et est in custodia ("I have taken the defendant [or body] and he is in custody").

cepi corpus et bail

I have arrested and then released the defendant on a bail bond.

cepi corpus et committitur

I have arrested and committed the defendant (to prison).

cepi corpus et est languidus

I have arrested the defendant and he is sick. ( This notation in a sheriff's return indicated that the defendant was too sick to be moved safely from the place of arrest.

cepi corpus et paratum habeo

I have made an arrest and am ready to produce the defendant.

cepit

[Latin] Hist. He took. ( This was the main verb in a declaration in an action for trespass or replevin.

cepit et abduxit

[Latin] Hist. He took and led away. ( This declaration appeared in either a writ of trespass or a larceny indictment for theft of an animal.

cepit et asportauit

[Latin] Hist. He took and carried away. ( This declaration appeared in either a writ of trespass or a larceny indictment for a defendant's wrongfully carrying away goods.

cepit in alio loco

[Latin] Hist. He took in another place. 0 This phrase appeared in a replevin-action pleading in which a defendant asserted that the property had been taken at a place other than that named in the plaintiff's declaration.

non cepit

[Latin "he did not take"] Hist. A general denial in a replevin action that puts at issue both the taking and the place of taking. See REPLEVIN. Non cepit' is the general issue in replevin, and is a formal denial both of the fact and the place of the alleged taking. It denies the taking only, and not the plaintiffs right of possession. Where replevin may be and is brought for goods lawfully obtained, but unlawfully detained, the general issue is 'non detinet,' which is a denial of the detention. It denies the detention only, and not the plaintiff's right." Benjamin J. Shipman, Handbook of Common-Law Pleading ยง 178, at 318 (Henry Winthrop Ballantine ed., 3d ed. 1923).

replevin in cepit

An action for the repossession of property that is both wrongfully taken and wrongfully detained.