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capias

noun/ˈkeɪpiəs/

C2CEFR level
96/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A court order directing an officer to arrest and bring in a named person.

When he blew off the subpoena, the clerk issued a capias that afternoon.

Similar: bench warrant

Topic: Criminal law in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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