Thesaurus: recaption
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.
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- n. 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.
- 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.
- The act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after arrest;reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife, orchildren, without force or violence, from one who has taken them andwho wrongfully detains them. Blackstone. Writ of recaption (Law), awrit to recover damages for him whose goods, being distrained forrent or service, are distrained again for the same cause.Wharton.
- n. 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.