CAPIAS AD SATISFACIENDUM, or CA. SA. This is one of the writs by which a plaintiff can put a judgment recovered by him in execution. The object of it is to imprison the debtor till satisfaction, but it is rarely used since the abolition of imprisonment for debt. One of the returns to this writ is the famous non est inventus. See on the subject of Capias generally, ARREST, ATTACHMENT, EXECUTION, and BAIL.
CAPIAS AD SATISFACIENDUM
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 740
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