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''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.


See also

* '' Advocatione decimarum'' * Apostasy * '' Chartis reddendis''


References

*F Donald Logan. Runaway Religious in Medieval England, C.1240-1540. Cambridge University Press. 1996. Pages 24
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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
120
and 121. *Eileen Power. Medieval English Nunneries, C. 1275 to 1535. Biblo and Tannen. 1988. Pages 443 an
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*R H Helmholz. The Spirit of Classical Canon Law. University of Georgia Press. 2010
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*"Book Reviews" (1997
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