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

We might issue a writ of replevin and search Frye's office, but then we are not sure of finding them.

From Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast by Munn, Charles Clark

As assignee of the original seller of the melting tanks, which were purchased, not on open account but on contract, and the same held delinquent, he has here in this document a writ of replevin.

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

We were about to crowd in when we heard him say: "Well, if I can find them I shall have them arrested and replevin the horse."

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