accapitum

[Lat. ad = to; caput = head.] Money paid by a va al to the lord of a manor on being admitted to a feud. ăc-çē'-dăs ad cür-i-ăm. [Lat. ( lit. ) = you may approach the court.] Law: A writ nominally emanating from the royal authority, and designed to remove a trial which is not proceeding satisfactorily in an inferior court to a court of greater dignity. ăc-çe'de, v. i. [In Fr. accéder; Ital. accedere; Lat. accedo = to go to, to approach; also to a ent to: from ad to; cedo to go; also, among other meanings, to yield.] 1. To a ent to a proposal or to an opinion. "To this request he acceded."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. x. "I entirely accede to Dr. Buck land's explanation." -Owen: Brit . Fo il Mammals and Birds , p. 259. 2. To become a party to a treaty by appending a signature to it, even though it may have been negotiated by others. the treaty of Hanover, in 1725, between France and England, to which the Dutch afterwards acceded."-Lord Chesterfield. 3. To succeed, as a king does to the throne. "King Edward IV., who acceded to the throne in the year year 1461."-T. Warton: Hist . Eng . Poetry , ii. 106. IMG:content-0073.png:[graphic] formerly applied in the royal household to a kind of check between the clerks of the kitchen and the purveyors.