Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Recaption \Re*cap"tion\, 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.

   {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.