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Definition of Replevin
1. n. A personal action which lies to recover possession of goods and chattle wrongfully taken or detained. Originally, it was a remedy peculiar to cases for wrongful distress, but it may generally now be brought in all cases of wrongful taking or detention.
2. v. t. To replevy.
Definition of Replevin
1. Noun. (legal) an action to recover personal property unlawfully taken; the writ or procedure of such action ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) to replevy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Replevin
1. to replevy [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: replevy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Replevin
Literary usage of Replevin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1911)
"replevin BOND—Recovery of Costs and Counsel Fees.—-In an action on a replevin
bond, wherein the condition is that the principal obligor shall pay such ..."
2. An Abridgment of the Law of Nisi Prius by William Selwyn (1845)
"147, that a replevin is founded on a distress taken wrongfully and without
sufficient cause (1) ; whence it may be inferred that the learned commentator ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Simon Greenleaf, Simon Greenleaf Croswell (1892)
"(a) Real property is not subject to replevin. Riewe ». McCormick, 11 Neb. 201.
Hut if buildings are not so attached to the realty as to be fixtures, ..."
4. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"Held, the action of replevin is local in its nature; and must be brought in the
county ... The pit. naming himself of Boston, sued his replevin in Suffolk, ..."
5. An Abridgement of the Law of Nisi Prius by William Selwyn, Edward E. Law, Henry Wheaton, Thomas Isaac Wharton (1857)
"replevin lies of all good; and chattels unlawfully taken. ... A replevin is a
judicial writ to the sheriff, complaining of an unjust taking and detention of ..."
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