If, pendlng an action of replevin for a distress, the defendant distrains again for the same rent or service, the owner of the goods is not driven to another action of replevin, but is allowed a writ of recaption, by which he recovers the goods and damages for the defendant's contempt of the process of the law in making a second distress while the matter is sub jndice. woodf. Landl. & Ten. 484
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
