the process of taking back one's own wife, child, property, etc, without causing a breach of the peace
Word origin
C17: from re- + caption (in the sense: seizure)
recaption in American English
(riˈkæpʃən)
noun
Law
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
Word origin
[1600–10; re- + caption]This word is first recorded in the period 1600–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: alpine, cadet, criticism, operate, skidre- is a prefix, occurring originally in loanwords from Latin, used with the meaning“again” or “again and again” to indicate repetition, or with the meaning “back” or“backward” to indicate withdrawal or backward motion. Other words that use the affixre- include: refurbish, regenerate, retrace, retype, revert