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Capite

Contract and Property Doctrine

In old English law, a capite, from the Latin caput meaning head, was a tenure in subinfeudation by which either a person or land was held immediately of the king or of his crown, either by knight-service or by socage. The holder of a capite is termed a tenant-in-chief. Tenures in capite were abolished by the Tenures Abolition Act 1660. The term therefore belongs to the historical law of feudal land tenure in England, where holding land directly of the Crown distinguished a tenant-in-chief from those who held through an intermediate lord.

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Entity-backed identity for the doctrine category value this doctrine already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a doctrine entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.

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1. Wikipedia: Capite
a tenure in subinfeudation, by which either person or land was held immediately of the kingView the Source
Capite (Wikipedia)
  • In Group: Estate in Land, lead paragraph defines the tenure
  • In Legal System: English Law, Wikipedia lead paragraph
    In old English law, a capite (from Latin caput, head) was a tenu
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