RE: Help, please! (was: Possibly OT: "n: est Invts Caps" defined)


Thanks, Matt.



David Teague

From: mllt1@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Help, please! (was: Possibly OT: "n: est Invts Caps" defined)
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:10:13 -0700
To: gen-medieval@xxxxxxxxxxxx

On Jun 26, 7:24 am, David Teague <davtea...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Does anybody know what "n: est Invts Caps" means? I found it in the following citation:
[Maryland State Archives, Somerset County Court Judicial Record (Sept 30 1687-June 12 1689)]
"Entries returnable the Second Tuesday in Janry: Annoq Dom: 1687"
"n: est: Invts Caps agt Edward Teague to answer unto Thomas Roberts of a plea of Debt John Robinson Subpd on the part of y plte"


It's probably 'Non est inventus. Capias'. Capias ad respondendum
(capias = 'you should take, ie arrest'; ad respondendum = 'to answer')
was a type of writ commanding the sheriff to arrest a person and bring
him to court to answer a plea. 'Non est inventus' (= 'He was not
found') was the return the sheriff made to the court if he couldn't
find the person.

Matt Tompkins


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