In Engllsh practice. A judicial writ touching a plea of . lands or tenements, divlded lnto cape magnum, or the grand cape, whlch lay before "appearance to sum* mon the tenant to answer the default, and also over to the demandant; the cape ad valentiam was a species of grand cape, and cape parvum, or petit cape, after appearance or vlew granted, summoning the tenant to answer the default only. Termes de la Ley; 3 Steph. Comm. 606, note
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
