replevin
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Anglo-Norman, from Old French replevir (“recover”), from re- + plevir (apparently from a Germanic word which was also the source of English pledge).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
replevin (plural replevins)
- (law) An action to recover personal property unlawfully taken, especially that seized by way of distraint; the writ or procedure of such action.
Translations[edit]
legal action
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Verb[edit]
replevin (third-person singular simple present replevins, present participle replevining, simple past and past participle replevined)
- (transitive) To replevy.
- 1998, Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain:
- Arranged about her are artificial flowers that appear in their varied pale and pastel colors to be faded from the sun. As if perhaps replevined from some desert grave.
Translations[edit]
replevy — see replevy