RECAPTIONS

Verb

recaptions

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of recaption

Anagrams

• captioners, points race, preactions, precations

Source: Wiktionary


RECAPTION

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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