Apostate capiendo (Latin for "taking an apostate")"de apostate capiendo" Legal Dictionaries of the Encyclopedia of Law Project was an old English writ against an individual. It prescribed the arrest of a person, who having entered and professed some religious order (such as a monk), broke from his cloister, contrary to the rules of his order."apostata capiendo" Legal Dictionaries of the Encyclopedia of Law Project

See also

Advocatione decimarum Apostasy Chartis reddendis

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