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Definition of Recaptors
1. recaptor [n] - See also: recaptor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recaptors
Literary usage of Recaptors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Analytical Digest of All the Reported Cases Determined by the High Court by William Tarn Pritchard, Great Britain High Court of Admiralty (1847)
"4\ recaptors from pirates have a lien on the property for salvage ... recaptors are
under a responsibility to restore the property of allies and neutrals, ..."
2. Cases and Opinions on International Law: And Various Points of English Law by Pitt Cobbett (1913)
"The Eights of recaptors.—As regards property retaken on the sea, which alone
concern* us hero, the respective rights of the original owner and ..."
3. Commerce in War by Llewellyn Archer Atherley-Jones, Hugh Hale Leigh Bellot (1907)
"... all nations at sea, changed their ownership by the right of war, and consequently,
when recaptured by others, became the property of the recaptors.4 ..."
4. Commerce in War by Llewellyn Archer Atherley-Jones, Hugh Hale Leigh Bellot (1907)
"... changed their ownership by the right of war, and consequently, when recaptured
by others, became the property of the recaptors.4 1 Civil and Adm. Law, ..."
5. Declaration of War: A Survey of the Position of Belligerents and Neutrals by Douglas Owen (1889)
"If the recaptors be from within — as, for instance, if the crew of the captured
vessel rise and overpower the prize-crew placed on board by the captors—then ..."
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