Writ vs Capias - What's the difference?
writ | capias |
(legal) A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.
authority, power to enforce compliance
* '>citation
(obsolete) that which is written; writing
* Spenser
* Knolles
(dated, nonstandard)
* (Omar Khayyam) (in translation)
(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.
In lang=en terms the difference between writ and capias
is that writ is a written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something while capias is an arrest warrant; a writ commanding officers to take a specified person or persons into custody.As a verb writ
is past participle of lang=en.writ
English
(wikipedia writ)Noun
(en noun)- We can't let them take advantage of the fact that there are so many areas of the world where no one's writ runs.
- Then to his hands that writ he did betake, / Which he disclosing read, thus as the paper spake.
- Babylon, so much spoken of in Holy Writ
Derived terms
* drop the writ * Holy Writ * writ of habeas corpusReferences
* Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia (Webster)Verb
(head)- (Dryden)
- The moving finger writes, and having writ , not all your piety or wit can lure it back to cancel half a line
