Caption (law)

Caption was a term used (especially in Scotland), for arrest or apprehension.[1]

Caption also has an old legal use, to signify the part of an indictment, etc., which shows where, when and by what authority it is taken, found or executed; so its opening or heading. From this is derived the modern sense of the heading of an article in a book or newspaper.[1]

In accordance with the American Heritage Dictionary, the word is still used in the United States to indicate: "the heading of a pleading or other document that identifies the parties, court, term, and number of the action."[2]

References

  1. 1 2  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Caption". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  2. ↑ "Caption". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2014. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
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