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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 293 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAPTION (See also:Lat. captio, a taking or catching)  , a See also:term still used in See also:law, especially Scots, for See also:arrest or See also:apprehension . From the obsolete sense of a catching at any possible plea or objection comes the See also:adjective " captious," i.e. sophistical or See also:fault-finding . The term also has an old legal use, to signify the See also:part of an See also:indictment, &c., which shows where, when and by what authority it is taken, found or executed; so its opening or heading . From this is derived the See also:modern sense of the heading of an See also:article in a See also:book or newspaper .

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