Definitions for recaption

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  1. recaption(Noun)

    The lawful claim and recovery, by a person, of goods wrongly taken from him

  2. recaption(Verb)

    To assign a new caption to.

    The newspaper was forced to recaption the photograph to avoid a libel suit.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Recaption(noun)

    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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