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plural capiases
(law) An arrest warrant; a writ commanding officers to take a specified person or persons into custody. quotations examples
All which when Cupid heard, he by and by / In great displeasure wild a Capias / Should issue forth t'attach that scornefull lasse.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie