In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
RECAPTION
Etymology
Noun
recaption (countable and uncountable, plural recaptions)
(legal) The lawful claim and recovery, by a person, of goods wrongly taken from him
Verb
recaption (third-person singular simple present recaptions, present participle recaptioning, simple past and past participle recaptioned)
(transitive) To assign a new caption to.
Anagrams
• captioner, preaction, precation
Source: Wiktionary
Re*cap"tion, n. (Law)
Definition: 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. Blackstone. Writ of recaption (Law), a writ to recover damages for him whose goods, being distrained for rent or service, are distrained again for the same cause.Wharton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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