replevin

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

I will give you a writ of personal replevin!

From Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis, Esq., on the Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave Held in Boston, in February, 1851. by Various

I replied that to make a full statement would surely result in a writ of replevin being served and the horse being taken from me.

From Twenty Years of Hus'ling by W. W. (William Wallace) Denslow

"I don't want your papers," remarked Sylvane, who did not know a replevin paper from a dog license.

From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn