CEPIT

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CEPIT. Took. This is a technical word, which cannot be supplied by any other 
  in an indictment for larceny. The charge against the defendant must be that 
  he took the thing stolen with a felonious design. Bac. Ab. Indictment, G 1.