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recaption

[ree-kap-shuh n]
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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Origin of recaption

First recorded in 1600–10; re- + caption
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British Dictionary definitions for recaption

recaption

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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Word Origin

C17: from re- + caption (in the sense: seizure)
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