Writ De Excommunicato Capiendo Act 1562

The Writ De Excommunicato Capiendo Act 1562 (5 Eliz. 1. c. 23) was an act of the Parliament of England.

Writ A writ de excommunicato capiendo (Latin for "taking one who is excommunicated") was a writ commanding the sheriff to arrest one who was excommunicated, and imprison him till he should become reconciled to the church.

Subsequent developments The whole act was repealed by section 87 of, and the fifth schedule to, the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963 (No. 1), which came into force on 1 March 1965.

See also De Excommunicato Deliberando

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References Halsbury's Statutes