Usually means: Payment by head or poll.
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  2. capite: Wiktionary
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  4. Capite: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Capite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. capite: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Capite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. capite: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  10. Capite: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Capite: Legal dictionary

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  1. CAPITE, CAPITE, CAPITE: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

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  1. Capite: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (capite)

▸ noun:  (historical) An ancient English tenure, abolished in 1660, by which either person or land was held immediately of the king, or of his crown, by either knight service or socage.

Similar:
great fee, socmanry, tenant, burgage, copyhold, geneat, chiefrie, serjeanty, ward, team, more...

Opposite:
caudal, posterior, tail-end

Phrases:
pro capite, tenant in capite, in capite, more...



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Similar:
great fee, socmanry, tenant, burgage, copyhold, geneat, chiefrie, serjeanty, ward, team, more...

Opposite:
caudal, posterior, tail-end

Phrases:
pro capite, tenant in capite, in capite, more...



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