capias
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin capiās (“you should seize, you are to seize”), from capiō (“to seize”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcapias (plural capiases)
- (law) An arrest warrant; a writ commanding officers to take a specified person or persons into custody. [from 15th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- All which when Cupid heard, he by and by / In great displeasure wild a Capias / Should issue forth t'attach that scornefull lasse.
Usage notes
edit- The term is mostly used in the singular.
Translations
editarrest warrant — see arrest warrant
Latin
editVerb
editcapiās
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