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Home Dictionary Name: caput anniCaput anni
Caput anni, the first day of the year....
Anni nubiles
Anni nubiles, marriageable years of woman, i.e., 12 years, Co. Litt. 79 a....
Caput lupinum
Caput lupinum, a wolf's head. An outlawed felon was said to be caput lupinum, and might be knocked on the head, like a wolf....
Caput baroni'
Caput baroni', the castle or chief seat of a baron....
Caput jejunii
Caput jejunii, the beginning of the Lent Fast, i.e., Ash Wednesday....
Caput mortuum
Caput mortuum, dead; obsolete....
Lupinum caput gerere
Lupinum caput gerere, to be outlawed, and have one's head exposed like a wolf's, with a reward to him who should take it....
Noxa sequitur caput
Noxa sequitur caput. Jus. Civ, (Guilt follows the person.)...
Rex est caput et salus reipublica
Rex est caput et salus reipublica (4 Co. 124), the king is the head and guardian of the commonwealth....
Utlagatus est quasi extra legem positus: caput gerit lupinum
Utlagatus est quasi extra legem positus: caput gerit lupinum (7 Rep. 14), an outlaw is, as it were, put out of the protection of the law: he carries the head of a wolf....
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