- In old
English law, a
capite (from
Latin caput, head) was a
tenure in subinfeudation, by
which either person or land was held
immediately of the king,...
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Capite censi were the
lowest class of
citizens in
ancient Rome,
people not of the
nobility or
middle classes. The term in
Latin means "those
counted by...
-
Sylvester the First, also
known as (Italian: San
Silvestro in
Capite, Latin:
Sancti Silvestri in
Capite), is a
Roman Catholic minor basilica and
titular church...
- Per
capita is a
Latin phrase literally meaning "by heads" or "for each head", and
idiomatically used to mean "per person". The term is used in a wide variety...
-
Plecto Aliquem Capite is a
noise black metal band
based in Colombo, Sri Lanka,
formed in 2008.
Buddhika Karunasekara and
Nightmare formed the band in 2008...
- Mike De
Capite is an
American writer whose published work
includes the
novels Through the
Windshield and
Jacket Weather, the
chapbooks Sitting Pretty and...
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officiants pra****, sacrificed,
offered libations, and
practiced augury capite velato, "with the head covered" by a fold of the toga
drawn up from the...
- The
median income is the
income amount that
divides a po****tion into two groups, half
having an
income above that amount, and half
having an
income below...
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knights and
soldiers for the king's
feudal army. The
Latin term was
tenens in
capite.
Other names for tenant-in-chief were "captal" or baron,
although the latter...
- The jus
spolii (also
called jus
exuviarum or
rapite capite), the
Latin for
right of spoil, was a
claim of
succession to the
property of
deceased clerics...
