A retaking, or taking back. A species of remedy by the mere act of the party injured, (otherwise termed “re-prisal,”) which happens wben any one has deprived another of his property in goods or chattels personal, or wrongfully detains one’s wife, child, or servant. In this case, the owner of the goods, and the husband, parent, or master may lawfully clalm and retake them, wherever he happens to find them, so it be not In a riotous manner, or attended with a breach of tbe peace. 3 Inst 134; 3 Rl. Comm. 4; 3 Stepb. Comm. 358; Prigg v. Pennsylvania, 16 Pet. 612, 10 L. Ed. 1060
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
