Crossword-Solution: CAPIAS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Capias | n. | A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; -- also called writ of capias. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CAPIAS | anagram | PICASA |
We have 9 clues for the answer “CAPIAS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ARREST writ | 1 answer |
| Legal writ of arrest. | 1 answer |
| WRIT commanding arrest of person named | 1 answer |
| Writ of arrest. | 1 answer |
| writ for arrest | 1 answer |
| WRIT to arrest | 2 answers |
| Legal writ | 9 answers |
| Warrant officer | 38 answers |
| writ | 57 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CMZAEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CAPIAS (5)
Geleitsbriefe für Schurken sind Steckbriefe für die Gerechtigkeit.’ (Safe-conduct passes for knaves are writs of capias to honest men.) I answered: ‘But an English gentleman is not a knave; and no one knows the difference better than your Excellenz.’ The term ‘Schurken’ (knaves) had stirred my fire; and though I made a deferential bow, I looked as indignant as I felt.
Instead of the affairs of Blackwell Hall and price of broadcloth, wool, and baizes, he talks of nothing but actions upon the case, returns, capias, alias capias, demurrers, venire facias, replevins, supersedeases, certioraries, writs of error, actions of trover and conversion, trespasses, precipes, and dedimus.
Rosa summoned him in my name before the criminal court, and obtained against him a writ of 'capias' in case he should not obey the second summons.
Rosa summoned him in my name before the criminal court, and obtained against him a writ of ‘capias’ in case he should not obey the second summons.
Wild's lawyer on his examination, he insisting that the proceeding was improper, for that a writ de homine replegiando should issue, and on the return of that a capias in withernam, the justice inclined to commitment, so that Wild was driven to other methods for his defence.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1943–1968).