replevin

Example Sentences

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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

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)

A writ of replevin or some other process was issued,—I never knew exactly what,—directing the sheriff to take possession of the boat when it landed.

From Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail by Wilson, F. N. (Frederick N.)

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