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Apostate capiendo (Latin for "taking an apostate")[1] was an old English writ against an individual. It prescribed the arrest of a person, who having entered and professed some religious order (such as a monk), broke from his cloister, contrary to the rules of his order.[2][3]

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  • F Donald Logan. Runaway Religious in Medieval England, C.1240-1540. Cambridge University Press. 1996. Pages 24, 26, 97, 98, 100 to 103, 105 to 107, 111, 114, 116, 117, 120, 130, 178, 179, 180.
  • Elizabeth Makowski. Canon Law and Cloistered Women. Catholic University of America Press. 1997. Pages 120 and 121.
  • Eileen Power. Medieval English Nunneries, C. 1275 to 1535. Biblo and Tannen. 1988. Pages 443 and 462.
  • R H Helmholz. The Spirit of Classical Canon Law. University of Georgia Press. 2010. Page 234.
  • "Book Reviews" (1997) 38 Heythrop Journal 214
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    "de apostate capiendo" Legal Dictionaries of the Encyclopedia of Law Project
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    "apostata capiendo" Legal Dictionaries of the Encyclopedia of Law Project
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    Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). "Apostata capiendo". Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al.


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