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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Caput \Ca"put\ (k[=a]"p[u^]t), n.; pl. {Capita}
     (k[a^]p"[i^]*t[.a]). [L., the head.]
     1. (Anat.) The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or
        capitulum.
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     2. The top or superior part of a thing.
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     3. (Eng.) The council or ruling body of the University of
        Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.
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              Your caputs and heads of colleges.    --Lamb.
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     {Caput mortuum}. [L., dead head.] (Old Chem.) The residuum
        after distillation or sublimation; hence, worthless
        residue.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  capita
       See {caput}

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  caput
       n 1: a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure; "the caput
            humeri is the head of the humerus which fits into a
            cavity in the scapula"
       2: the upper part of the human body or the front part of the
          body in animals; contains the face and brains; "he stuck
          his head out the window" [syn: {head}]
       [also: {capita} (pl)]

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

  CAPITA, or PER CAPITA. By heads. An expression of frequent occurrence in 
  laws regulating the distribution of the estates of persons dying intestate. 
  When all the persons entitled to shares in the distribution are of the same 
  degree of kindred to the deceased person, (e.g. when all are grandchildren,) 
  and claim directly from him in their own right and not through an 
  intermediate relation, they take per capita, that is, equal shares, or share 
  and share alike. But when they are of different degrees of kindred, (e. g. 
  some the children, others the grandchildren or the great grandchildren of 
  the, deceased,) those more remote take er stirpem or per stirpes, that is, 
  they take respectively the shares their parents (or other relation standing 
  in the same degree with them of the surviving kindred entitled) who are in 
  the nearest degree of kindred to the intestate,) would have taken had they 
  respectively survived the intestate. Reeves' Law of Descent, Introd. xxvii.; 
  also 1 Rop. on Leg. 126, 130. See Per Capita; Per Stirpes; Stirpes; 
  
  

















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