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

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, not infrequent, was replevin, involving the ownership of hogs, when by unquestioned usage all stock was permitted to run at large.

From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)

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)