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

Replev′in, an action for replevying; Replev′isor, a plaintiff in replevin.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

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)

I may decide to have a detective within hearing, so that if he refuses you these things, we can use the detective as a witness in a replevin suit.

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