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

I replied that to make a full statement would surely result in a writ of replevin being served and the horse being taken from me.

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

One of his horses had been stolen by the boss of a passing herd, and he wanted a writ of replevin.

From The Aventures of Buffalo Bill by Cody, Col. William F.

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 Webster, Noah