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

This trio left the office instructed by the constable to hasten to the magistrate in the next township who had issued the replevin writ, and secure a broader document for possession of the premises.

From Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car by Chapman, Allen

He said he wanted to serve a writ of replevin and take the horse.

From Twenty Years of Hus'ling by Denslow, W. W. (William Wallace)

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