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Webster 1913 Edition
Recaption
Re-cap′tion
(rē̍-kăp′shŭn)
, Noun.
(Law)
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Recaption
RECAP'TION
,Noun.
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.
Definition 2024
recaption
recaption
English
Noun
recaption (countable and uncountable, plural recaptions)
Verb
recaption (third-person singular simple present recaptions, present participle recaptioning, simple past and past participle recaptioned)
- (transitive) To assign a new caption to.
- The newspaper was forced to recaption the photograph to avoid a libel suit.