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ACCAPITUM

Volume 1 · 68 words · 1771 Edition

signifies the money paid by a vassal upon his admission to a feud.

in our ancient law, was used also to express the relief due to the chief lord. See Relief.

ACCEDAS ad curiam, in the English law, a writ lying, where a man has received, or fears false judgment, in an inferior court; it lies also for justice delayed, and is a species of the writ recordare.