captio

Haltaus says -- "Olim pignoris captio ex debitoris rebus moventibus diu privatorum arbitrio permissa."

Iron Making in the Olden Times as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of The Forest of Dean 1846

Citing the example of the boy Robert of Pontoise, both Rigord in his Gesta Philippi Augusti and Guillaume de Breton reworking of Rigord's chronicle refer to oral traditions, repeated by Philip's childhood friends, that Jews crucified, sacrificed, and even ate the hearts of Christians. 15 Guillaume le Breton even went so far as to claim that Philip used these rumors to legitimize the captio, or seizure, of Jewish assets in 1180 — 81 and the expulsion of Jews from his kingdom in 1182.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005