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

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)

With the action of replevin we will not trouble our readers, to whom we ought, perhaps, to apologise for entering thus far into legal technicalities.

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

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)