recaption(Noun)

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

recaption(Verb)

To assign a new caption to.

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

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