Capias
a writ of several sorts: (1) capias ad respondendum, to answer the plaintiff in a plea of debt, trespass, or the like; (2) capias ad satisfaciendum, to satisfy the plaintiff after judgment in his favor; (3) capias on mesne process, under which, on an affidavit of debt being filed, a man's person could be arrested until payment was made or bail given. This last is now abolished except in cases where the creditor has good reason to believe that the debtor is about to leave the state to defeat collection, or has secreted assets to the same end; or CAPITAL if the debt was made by virtue of false representations as to solvency of the debtor; or if fraud in any way has been practiced upon the creditor. The element of fraud is the essence of the procedure.
CAPILLARIES (from Lat. capillus, "a hair"), the tubes which convey the blood from the left side of the heart to the various parts of the body are called arteries, while those which return it to the right side of the heart, after it has discharged its various functions in the body, are known as veins. The name capillaries is given to the minute vessels which form the connection between the terminal branches of the arteries and the commencement of the trunks of the veins. These little vessels are of various sizes, some admitting only one blood corpuscle at once, while others are large enough to allow of the simultaneous passage of 2, 3, or more corpuscles. In the muscular tissue their average diameter is 0.003 of a line; they are smallest in the brain, and largest in bone. Their arrangement varies in different parts.
The circulation of blood through the capillaries may be readily seen in the web between the toes of the hind foot of the frog, in the tongue of that animal, in the tail or gills of the tadpole, in the wing of the bat.