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A small freeholder or freeman. (Anglo-Saxon.) Cepi corpus. (I have taken the body.) When a writ of capias (q.v.) or attachment (q.v.) is directed to the sheriff for execution, if he has taken the defendant and has him in custody, he returns the writ together with an indorsement on the back stating that he has taken him ; called a return of cepi corpus

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