Definition of Recaptor

1. n. One who recaptures; one who takes a prize which had been previously taken.

Definition of Recaptor

1. Noun. One who recaptures, or takes a prize that had been previously taken. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recaptor

1. one who captures [n -S] - See also: captures

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recaptor

recapitulative
recapitulator
recapitulators
recapitulatory
recappable
recapped
recapper
recappers
recapping
recappings
recaps
recaption
recaptioned
recaptioning
recaptions
recaptor (current term)
recaptors
recapture
recaptured
recaptures
recapturing
recarbonise
recarbonize
recarbonized
recarbonizes
recarbonizing
recarnified
recarnify
recarpet
recarpeted

Literary usage of Recaptor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Commerce in War by Llewellyn Archer Atherley-Jones, Hugh Hale Leigh Bellot (1907)
"The recaptor, therefore, having acquired no rights of ownership, must restore the property to the original owner. The following rule has been formulated by ..."

2. Commerce in War by Llewellyn Archer Atherley-Jones, Hugh Hale Leigh Bellot (1907)
"The recaptor, therefore, having acquired no rights of ownership, must restore the property to the original owner. The following rule has been formulated by ..."

3. Niles' Weekly Register edited by Hezekiah Niles, Jeremiah Hughes, George Beatty (1837)
"In some few cn^cs, as where a vessel has been filled oui a ship of war, and consequently the danger of \.\\f recaptor IM the greater, ..."

4. The American Law Journal and Miscellaneous Repertory by John Elihu Hall (1810)
"The recaptor has saved the ship and goods, which otherwise would have been ... I do not know of any other action in the Roman law proper for the recaptor; ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of War by Cornelis van Bijnkershoek, Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (1810)
"The recaptor has saved the ship and goods, which otherwise would have been ... I do not know of any other action in the Roman law proper for the recaptor; ..."

6. A Digest of the Law of Maritime Captures and Prizes by Henry Wheaton (1815)
"In general, the British owner receives his property,' and the recaptor receives a salvage. In some few cases, as where a vessel has been fitted out as a ..."

7. Elements of International Law and Laws of War by Henry Wager Halleck (1874)
"erent recaptor certainly is justifiable in annexing conditions to his liberality. § 20. Where of strict right. But where the restitution is regarded as a ..."

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