Recaption

Re`cap´tion    (rė`kăp´shŭn)

n.

1.

(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. 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.