// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did caption say to law? You're always charging me.

Caption was a term used (especially in Scotland), for arrest or apprehension.^[1]

Caption also has an old legal use, to signify the part of an indictment, etc., which shows where, when and by what authority it is taken, found or executed; so its opening or heading. From this is derived the modern sense of the heading of an article in a book or newspaper.^[1]

In accordance with the American Heritage Dictionary, the word is still used in the United States to indicate: "the heading of a pleading or other document that identifies the parties, court, term, and number of the action."^[2]

The word is derived from Old French caption or Latin captio (as an adapted borrowing).

References

1 2 Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Caption" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
↑ "Caption". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins.

[EB1911-1] 1 2 Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Caption" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

[2] "Caption". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins.

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