replevin
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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
He said he wanted to serve a writ of replevin and take the horse.
From Twenty Years of Hus'ling by Denslow, W. W. (William Wallace)
Wherever we stopped, we imagined every time we saw a person approaching us, that it was an officer with papers for our arrest, or a writ of replevin for the horse and carriage.
From Twenty Years of Hus'ling by Denslow, W. W. (William Wallace)
Of personal actions, the most common are the following—Debt, covenant, detinue, trespass, trespass on the case, replevin.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various
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