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Custody vs Capias - What's the difference?

custody | capias |

As nouns the difference between custody and capias

is that custody is the legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children while capias is an arrest warrant; a writ commanding officers to take a specified person or persons into custody.

custody

English

Noun

(wikipedia custody) (-)
  • The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children.
    • The court awarded custody to the child's father.
  • Temporary possession or care of somebody else's property.
    • I couldn't pay the bill and now my passport is in custody of the hotel management.
  • The state of being imprisoned or detained, usually pending a trial.
    • He was mistreated while in police custody .

    Derived terms

    * joint custody * maternal custody * paternal custody * protective custody * sole custody

    Related terms

    * custodial * custodian

    External links

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    capias

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (legal) An arrest warrant; a writ commanding officers to take a specified person or persons into custody.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.7:
  • *:All which when Cupid heard, he by and by / In great displeasure wild a Capias / Should issue forth t'attach that scornefull lasse.

    • Usage notes

    * The term is mostly used in the singular.