CAPTION,
practice. That part of a legal instrument, as a 'Commission,
indictment, &c., which shows where, when, and by what authority it
was taken, found or executed. As to the forms and requisites of
captions, see 1 Murph. 281; 8 Yerg. 514; 4 Iredell, 113; 6 Miss,. 469; 1
Scam. 456; 5 How. Mis. 20; 6 Blackf. 299; 1 Hawks, 354; 1 Brev. 169.
2.
In the English practice, when an in ferior court in obedience to the
writ of certiorari, returns an indictment into the K. B. , it is annexed
to the caption, then called a schedule, and the caption concludes with
stating, that " it is presented in manner and form as appears in a
certain indictment thereto annexed, " and the caption and indictment are
returned on separate parch ments. 1 Saund. 309, n. 2. Vide Dane's Ab.
Index, h. t.
3. Caption is another name for arrest.
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