n. [ L. captio, fr. caper to take. In senses 3 and 4, perhaps confounded in meaning with L. caput a head. See Capacious. ] 1. A caviling; a sophism. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This doctrine is for caption and contradiction. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of taking or arresting a person by judicial process. [ R. ] Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) That part of a legal instrument, as a commission, indictment, etc., which shows where, when, and by what authority, it was taken, found, or executed. Bouvier. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The heading of a chapter, section, or page. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) The act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after arrest; reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife, or children, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Writ of recaption (Law), a writ to recover damages for him whose goods, being distrained for rent or service, are distrained again for the same cause. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. usucapere, usucaptum, to acquire by long use; usu (ablative of usus use) + capere to take: cf. usucapio usucaption. ] (Roman Law) The acquisition of the title or right to property by the uninterrupted possession of it for a certain term prescribed by law; -- the same as prescription in common law. [ 1913 Webster ]