Webster's 1828 Dictionary
RECAPTION
n.[L. re and captio; capio, to take. ] The act of retaking; reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife or children from one who has taken them and wrongfully detains them.
Writ of recaption, a writ to recover property taken by a second distress, pending a replevin for a former distress for the same rent or service.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
RECAPTION
RECAPTION Re *cap "tion, n. (Law )
Defn: 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.
New American Oxford Dictionary
recaption
re cap tion |rēˈkapSHən riˈkæpʃən | ▶noun Law the action of taking back, without legal process, property of one's own that has been wrongfully taken or withheld. ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: from Anglo-Latin recaptio (n- ), from re- ‘back ’ + Latin captio (n- ) ‘taking. ’
Oxford Dictionary
recaption
re |cap ¦tion |riːˈkapʃ (ə )n | ▶noun [ mass noun ] Law the action of taking back, without legal process, property of one's own that has been wrongfully taken or withheld. ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: from Anglo-Latin recaptio (n- ), from re- ‘back ’ + Latin captio (n- )‘taking ’.
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