Legal Definition and Related Resources of Cepit
Meaning of Cepit
(Lat. caper e, to take; cepit, he took, or has taken). In Civil Practice. A form of replevin which is brought for carrying away goods merely. 3 Hill (N. Y.) 282. Non detinet is not the proper answer to such a charge. 17 Ark. 85. And see 3 Wis. 399. Success upon a non cepit does not entitle the defendant to a return of the property. 5 Wis. 85. A plea of non cepit is not inconsistent with a plea showing property in a third person. 8 Gill (Md.) 133. In Criminal Practice, Took. A technical word necessary in an indictment for larceny. The charge must be that the defendant took the thing stolen with a felonious design. Bac. Abr. “Indictment” (G 1).
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Concept of “Cepit”
Traditional meaning of cepit in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) He took. Replevin in the cepit: when brought for the taking only, not the keeping; see REPLEVIN; DETINET. Cepit in alio loco (he took in another place): the plea in replevin when the defendant intended to avow and claim a return. Cepit et abduxit (he took and led away): emphatic words in a writ of trespass brought for animals; cepit et asportavit (he took and carried away), if brought for goods.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Cepit”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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