recaption

recaption is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] The act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after arrest; reprisal; the retaking of one`s own goods, chattels, wife, or children, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them. Blackstone. Writ of recaption (Law), a writ to recover damages for him whose goods, being distrained for rent or service, are distrained again for the same cause.Wharton.

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