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CAPIAS EXTENDI FACIAS Definition & Legal Meaning

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A writ of execution issuable in England against a debtor to the crown, which commands the sheriff to “take” or arrest the body, and “cause to be extended” the lands and goods of the debtor. Man. Exch. Pr. 5.

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