Legal Definition and Related Resources of Caput

Meaning of Caput

In Civil Law. Status; a person”s civil condition. According to the Roman law, three elements concurred to form the status or caput of the citizen, namely, liberty, libertas, citizenship, civitas, and family, familia. At Common Law. A head. Chiefly used in phrases, thus: Caput comitatis, the head of the county; the sheriff; the king. Spelman. Caput anni, the beginning of the year. Cowell. Caput legis, a head of the law; caput villae, the chief man of a town; caput feudi vel terrae, the head or chief lord of lands hald by feudal tenure; caput baroniae, the castle, manor house, or chief seat of a baron. Bracton, fol. 76b.

What does Caput mean in American Law?

The definition of Caput in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:

Singular of capita, and with as wide a range of meanings (for some of which see terms so beginning, below). Also (usually today) pronounced ( ), destroyed, dead.

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