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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The act of retaking; reprisal; in law, the retaking, without force or violence, of one's own goods, chattels, wife, or children from one who has taken them and wrongfully detains them. Also called reprisal.

Wiktionary

  1. n. law The lawful claim and recovery, by a person, of goods wrongly taken from him
  2. v. transitive To assign a new caption to.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. 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.

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  1. re- +‎ caption (Wiktionary)

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