Pignoris Capio
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pignoris capio · Pignoris capio · distress
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Institutes of Roman Law
Praetorian execution seizing only portions of a debtor's property, distinct from universal succession.
Under the empire ordinary execution (Pignoris capio) was differentiated from bankruptcy proceedings (Missio in bona).
In pignoris capio, however, there was only a singular succession to the debtor’s property, which was taken in execution, there was no transfer of his juris universitas.
per pignoris capionem—| (23 uersus in C legi nequeunt) —apparet.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
A Roman extrajudicial seizure of another's goods, interpreted as ancestral to the English practice of Distress.
I turn to the Teutonic societies for vestiges of a practice similar to that which the Romans called Pignoris Capio.
I take the Pignoris Capio as the immediate starting-point of all which I am about to say on the subject of Ancient Civil Procedure.
Poste for the observation that the ideal institutions of Plato’s Laws include something strongly resembling the Roman Pignoris Capio;