''Apostate capiendo'' (Latin for "taking an apostate") was an old English writ against an individual. It prescribed the arrest of a person, who having entered and professed some

religious order A religious order is a lineage of communities and organizations of people who live in some way set apart from society in accordance with their specific religious devotion, usually characterized by the principles of its founder's religious practi ...

(such as a monk), broke from his cloister, contrary to the rules of his order.

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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. Page
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*R H Helmholz. The Spirit of Classical Canon Law. University of Georgia Press. 2010
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Heythrop Journal 214 Apostasy Ecclesiastical writs Legal documents with Latin names Legal history of England {{England-law-stub

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