first fruits. 1. Hist. One year’s profits from the land of a tenant in capite, payable to the Crown after the tenant’s death. — Also termed primer seisin. 2. Hist. Eccles. law. The first year’s whole profits of a clergyman’s benefice, paid by the incumbent to the Pope, or (after the break with Rome) to […]
fine for alienation. Hist. A fee paid by a tenant to the lord upon the alienation of a feudal estate and substitution of a new tenant. • It was payable by all tenants holding by knight’s service or tenants in capite by socage tenure. — Often shortened to fine.
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non intromittendo, quando breve praecipe in capite subdole impetratur (non in-troh-mi-ten-doh, kwon-doh bree-vee pree-s[schwa]-pee [orpres-[schwa]-pee] in kap-[schwa]-tee s[schwa]b-d[schwa]-lee im-p[schwa]-tray-t[ schwa]r), n. [Latin “not interfering, when the writ praecipe in capite was obtained by deceit”] Hist. A writ issued to the King’s Bench or Eyre, commanding them not to aid a person who obtained a praecipe
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Hist. A person who held land directly of the king. — Also termed tenant in capite. See IN CAPITE.
pour seisir terres (poor sI-z[schwa]r ter-eez). [Law French “for seizing the lands”] Hist. A writ by which the Crown could seize land that the wife of its deceased tenant, who held in capite, had for her dower if she married without leave.
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pour seisir terres 〈法〉(英格兰古法)没收土地令状 国王据以占有未经其同意而再婚的直属封臣〔tenant in capite〕的遗孀所保有土地的令状。
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capitis deminutio (kap-i-tis dem-i-n[y]oo-shee-oh). [Latin “reduction of status”] Roman law. A diminution or alteration of a person’s legal status. — Also spelled capitis diminutio. See DE CAPITE MINUTIS. “Capitis deminutio is the destruction of the ‘caput’ or legal personality. Capitis deminutio, so to speak, wipes out the former individual and puts a new one in
interdiction. 1. The act of forbidding or restraining. interdiction of commercial intercourse. Int’l law. A governmental prohibition of commercial trade. 2. The interception and seizure of something, esp. contraband. 3. Civil law. The act of depriving a person of the right to handle his or her own affairs because of mental incapacity. See EX CAPITE
inhibition (in-hi-bish-[schwa]n), n. 1. Eccles. law. A writ issued by a superior ecclesiastical court, forbidding a judge from proceeding in a pending case. 2. Eccles. law. An order issuing from an ecclesiastical court, prohibiting a member of the clergy from taking office or performing an unlawful action. 3. Hist. A writ of prohibition. See PROHIBITION(2).