replevin

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In this case an action to recover penalties and an action to replevin copies in possession were started independently and simultaneously, and the Circuit Court of Appeals through Judge Buffington affirmed the decision that as the penalties under the old act were restricted to copies "found in possession," the suit for penalties was premature.

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Smith, also in the Pennsylvania circuit, it was pointed out that an action for replevin was not the proper form of suit because in such actions bonds might be given and the forfeiture of copies thus be barred; and in Hegeman v.

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It was held, however, in the Illinois circuit in an earlier case, that a suit of replevin will lie to enforce forfeiture under the copyright act.

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C. C. J. McPherson, 121 F. R. 148 Replevin not the proper form of copyright suit, 273 1903 Stone v.

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The act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right.

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