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

You haven't a piece of property here," said the judge, going on with the matters uppermost in his mind, "that you could successfully maintain replevin for, if anybody converted it.

From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Lowell, Orson

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

Another action is replevin which is used to recover specific goods.

From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Bolles, Albert Sidney