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

The bailiffs of the prior following them made suit for their cattle, by replevin within fifteen days: and their suit was allowed.

From The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson by Brakelond, Jocelin de

Of personal actions, the most common are the following—Debt, covenant, detinue, trespass, trespass on the case, replevin.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

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)