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

Then after filling out a writ of replevin he added, "Excuse me a moment, Mr. Terry; I will be back soon."

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

Where is the great writ of personal replevin, which our fathers wrested, several hundred years ago, from the tyrants who once lorded it over Great Britain?

From The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Parker, Theodore