"Recaption" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
A retaking, or taking back. A species of remedy by the mere act of the party injured, (otherwise termed “re-prisal,”) which happens wben any one has deprived another of his property in goods or chattels personal, or wrongfully detains one’s wife, child, or servant. In this case, the owner of the goods, and the husband, parent, or master may lawfully clalm and retake them, wherever he happens to find them, so it be not In a riotous manner, or attended with a breach of tbe peace. 3 Inst 134; 3 Rl. Comm. 4; 3 Stepb. Comm. 358; Prigg v. Pennsylvania, 16 Pet. 612, 10 L. Ed. 1060
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.
Cinder flexed her tongue, testing it, and raised her voice."I am princess Selene."Levana leaned forward. "Your are an impostor!""And I am ready to claim what's mine. People of Artemisia, this is your chance. Renounce Levana as your queen and swear fealty to me, or I swear that when I wear that crown, very person in this room will be punished for their betrayal.
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A resuming or retaking possession of what one has lately foregone; -- applied especially to land; the entry by a …
Read the complete definitionOne who takes again what has been taken; a recaptor.
Read the complete definitionThe taking one’s 'goods, from another, who without right has taken! possession thereof. •
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