DE EXCOMMUNICATO CAPIENDO

By SovConn | June 29, 2014

de excommunicato capiendo (dee eks-k<<schwa>>-myoo-ni-kay-toh kap-ee-en-doh), n.[Law

Latin  “for  taking  an  excommunicated  person”]  Hist.  Eccles.  law.  A  writ  ordering  a  sheriff  to

imprison an excommunicated person until the person reconciled with the church. • It was replaced

by the writ de contumace capiendo. See DE CONTUMACE CAPIENDO. [Blacks Law 8th]

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