replevin

Example Sentences

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The Argonauts promised to produce this contract, adding that if Engineer Sikorsky continued unconvinced they would pay him a balance due of $8,000, attach the plane through a writ of replevin, drop Capt.

From Time Magazine Archive

One firm, Merchant & Co., which had supplied the iron for his kiln and vault, had gone so far as to secure a writ of replevin to take the iron back.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

The act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

I may decide to have a detective within hearing, so that if he refuses you these things, we can use the detective as a witness in a replevin suit.

From Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast by Munn, Charles Clark

A neighbouring place; a term often used in law in actions of marine replevin.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir