REPLEVY

v. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To take or get back, by a writ for that purpose (goods and chattels wrongfuly taken or detained), upon giving security to try the right to them in a suit at law, and, if that should be determined against the plaintiff, to return the property replevied.

2.
v.

To bail. Spenser.

3.
n.

Replevin. Mozley & W.


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