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

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

They came with a replevin writ, found it of no effect, and have now sent to some renegade justice outside of the township for a writ of possession.”

From Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car by Chapman, Allen

One of his horses had been stolen by the boss of a passing herd, and he wanted a writ of replevin.

From The Aventures of Buffalo Bill by Cody, Col. William F.