Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
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.