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‖ ˈcapite|ˈkæpɪtiː|
L., ablat. of caput head, occurring in the phrase tenēre in capite to hold (of the king) in chief; whence tenant, tenure in capite, and attrib. uses, as capite-lands, and the treatment of capite in Law Dicts. as ‘The name of a tenure (abolished by Act 12 Chas. II, xxiv.), by which land was held immediately of the King, or of the crown’.
1616Bullokar s.v., Capite, a tenure, when a man holdeth lands, immediately of the king as of his crowne. a1626Bacon Use Com. Law (1636) 39 If a man be seized of capite lands and soccage, he cannot devise but two parts of the whole. 1634Sanderson Serm. II. 291 A single rood of capite-land will bring the whole estate into wardship. 1641Termes de la Ley 46 Capite is a Tenure that holdeth immediatly of the King, as of his Crowne. 1755in Johnson. |