recaption

American  

[ree-kap-shuhn] / riˈkæp ʃən /

noun

Law.

1. the taking back without violence of one's property or a member of one's family or household unlawfully in the possession or custody of another.

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recaption British  

/ riːˈkæpʃən /

noun

1. law the process of taking back one's own wife, child, property, etc, without causing a breach of the peace

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Etymology

Origin of recaption

First recorded in 1600–10; re- + caption

Example Sentences

For example, while Southern enslavers emphasized their summary right of recaption of fugitives, abolitionists emphasized states’ authority to require due process in renditions.

From Washington Post

His defence was that he had a lawful excuse for cutting the padlocks in that wheel-clamping was a trespass to his car, and under the principle of the "recaption of goods" he was entitled to recover his car.

From BBC

Its true the Prepon'ts had a Right or Claim to Salvage On the Recaption, but before that right Cou'd be Adjudged lawfull to the Recaptors the Briganteen was again taken by a Spaniard, which puts an Entire End to Salvage for a former Recaption, because Retakeing and Restitution begets Salvage but the Prepon'ts Retakeing is lost by the Enemies Again takeing the Brig't, and in Fact its the Enemy that made the Restitution.

From Project Gutenberg