capias (plural capiases)
(legal) An arrest warrant; a writ commanding officers to take a specified person or persons into custody. [from 15th c.]
• The term is mostly used in the singular.
Source: Wiktionary
Ca"pi*as, n. Etym: [L. thou mayst take.] (Low)
Definition: A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; -- also called writ of capias.
Note: One principal kind of capias is a writ by which actions at law are frequently commenced; another is a writ of execution issued after judgment to satisfy damages recovered; a capias in criminal law is the process to take a person charged on an indictment, when he is not in custody. Burrill. Wharton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
