WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

retaking
    n 1: the act of taking something back [syn: recapture,
         retaking]

Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

RETAKING. The taking one's goods, wife, child, &c., from another, who
without right has taken possession thereof. Vide Recaption; Rescue.