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English → English (gcide) Definition: Writ of recaption Recaption \Re*cap"tion\ (r[-e]*k[a^]p"sh[u^]n), n. (Law) 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]