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Definition of 'capias'English
Noun
(es)
(legal) An arrest warrant; a writ commanding officers to take a specified person or persons into custody.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.7:
*: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
* The term is mostly used in the singular.
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