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
You haven't a piece of property here," said the judge, going on with the matters uppermost in his mind, "that you could successfully maintain replevin for, if anybody converted it.
From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Lowell, Orson
We were about to crowd in when we heard him say: "Well, if I can find them I shall have them arrested and replevin 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)
