Grand Cape, In English Law in United States

Grand Cape, In English Law Definition

A writ judicial which lieth when a man has brought a praecipe quod reddat, of a thing that toucheth plea of lands, and the tenant makes default on the day given him in the writ original, then this writ shall go for the king, to take the land into the king’s hands, and, if he comes not at the day given him by the grand cape, he has lost his lands. Old Nat. Brev. fols. 161, 162; Reg. Jud. fol. 2b; Bracton, lib. 5, tr. 3, c. 1, Nos. 4, 5, 6. So called because its Latin form began with the word cape, “take thou,” and because it had more words than the petit cape, or because petit cape summons to answer for default only. Petit cape issues after appearance to the original writ, grand cape before.

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A writ judicial which lieth when a man has brought a praecipe quod reddat, of a thing that toucheth plea of lands, and the tenant makes default on the day given him in the writ original, then this writ shall go for the king, to take the land into the king’s hands, and, if he comes not at the day given him by the grand cape, he has lost his lands. Old Nat. Brev. fols. 161, 162; Reg. Jud. fol. 2b; Bracton, lib. 5, tr. 3, c. 1, Nos. 4, 5, 6. So called because its Latin form began with the word cape, “take thou,” and because it had more words than the petit cape, or because petit cape summons to answer for default only. Petit cape issues after appearance to the original writ, grand cape before.

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