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
The act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
Recourse was thereupon had to the Sheriffs' Court of the City, where the owners sued out a replevin as for property illegally distrained.
From London and the Kingdom - Volume II by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe
