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Caption :: Caption (n.) A caviling; a sophism.

Caption :: Caption (n.) The act of taking or arresting a person by judicial process.

Caption :: Caption (n.) That part of a legal instrument, as a commission, indictment, etc., which shows where, when, and by what authority, it was taken, found, or executed..

Caption :: Caption (n.) The heading of a chapter, section, or page..

Captious :: Captious (a.) Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.

Captious :: Captious (a.) Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious; troublesome..

Captiously :: Captiously (adv.) In a captious manner.

Captiousness :: Captiousness (n.) Captious disposition or manner.

Recaption :: Recaption (n.) The act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after arrest; reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife, or children, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them..

Usucaption :: Usucaption (n.) The acquisition of the title or right to property by the uninterrupted possession of it for a certain term prescribed by law; -- the same as prescription in common law.