recaptor

From re- +‎ captor.

recaptor (plural recaptors)

1. One who recaptures, or takes a prize that had been previously taken.
2. (archaic, law) Someone who recovers or attempts to recover by recaption.
   • 1833, David Hughes, A Treatise on the Law Relating to Insurance:

     The only argument to shew that the loss had not then ceased to be total, was built upon a mistaken supposition that the recaptor had a right to demand a sale, and put a stop to any further prosecution of the voyage.

• “recaptor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.