Recaption

[ri:'kæpʃәn]

Definition

(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.

Edited by Carmella

Definition

n. reprisal: (law) taking back goods wife or children from one who has no right to detain them.

Editor: Peter