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Example sentences for "replevin"

Lexicographically close words:
replenished; replenishing; replenishment; replete; repletion; replica; replicas; replicating; replication; replied
  1. On Monday following a replevin was served upon her in the name of Harleston, who was under-steward of the duchy of Lancaster, on the ground that the cattle had been taken within the fee of the duchy.

  2. But in the afternoon he came again with a replevin under the seal of the sheriff of Norfolk, which it was impossible lawfully to disobey.

  3. Blair and Witzig warmly approved this; Filley and Broadhead finally acquiesced, while How and Glover were opposed to both the manner and time and wanted a writ of replevin served by the United States Marshal.

  4. Then, those timorous ones insisted that the forms of the law should be employed, and that the United States Marshal, armed with a writ of replevin to recover United States property, should precede the attack upon the camp.

  5. Lyon fretted under this; The writ of replevin was a tiresome formality to men who talked of fighting and were ready to fight; furthermore, if served and recognized, Frost might put off the Marshal with some trumpery stuff of no value.

  6. Colorow, is home again after a prolonged hunting and camping trip, during which he was attacked and cordially shot at by a group of gentlemen who came to serve a writ of replevin on him.

  7. Colorow does not know exactly what the writ of replevin is for, unless it be for the purpose of accumulating mileage for the sheriff.

  8. It was held, however, in the Illinois circuit in an earlier case, that a suit of replevin will lie to enforce forfeiture under the copyright act.

  9. Smith, also in the Pennsylvania circuit, it was pointed out that an action for replevin was not the proper form of suit because in such actions bonds might be given and the forfeiture of copies thus be barred; and in Hegeman v.

  10. I felt that I needed a good deal of bracing in this writ of replevin business, so I drank his as well as mine.

  11. I asked Mrs. Cody if she could write a writ of replevin and she said she had never heard of such a thing.

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

  13. Then after filling out a writ of replevin he added, "Excuse me a moment, Mr. Terry; I will be back soon.

  14. I may decide to have a detective within hearing, so that if he refuses you these things, we can use the detective as a witness in a replevin suit.

  15. With all possible expedition a writ and other papers in a replevin suit were prepared for an action of Stranahan against the deputy sheriff.

  16. The result of the affair, which was soon arrived at, was this: the plaintiff succeeded in the replevin suit, the costs of which amounted to over one hundred dollars.

  17. The sheriff of the county was found, the replevin writ put into his hands, which he at once served on the deputy, took back the watch and delivered it to the owner.

  18. The deputy sheriff called on the farmer to indemnify him in the replevin suit, which he felt compelled to do.

  19. A writ of replevin is a writ which the sheriff is bound to execute, and for the execution of which he is bound to employ force, if necessary.

  20. It was a complete answer to the Replevin Act of South Carolina, and it would inevitably throw the responsibility for committing the first act of violence upon the Commonwealth in any resistance to the collection of the duties.

  21. To replevin your goods, it means you get a court order to take them wherever you can find them.

  22. Is replevin any relation, say a second cousin, to lis pendis?

  23. In 1823 the court of appeals of Kentucky declared the replevin and stay laws unconstitutional.

  24. He said he wanted to serve a writ of replevin and take the horse.

  25. Wherever we stopped, we imagined every time we saw a person approaching us, that it was an officer with papers for our arrest, or a writ of replevin for the horse and carriage.

  26. Our experience of a few days before with the writ of replevin had been a very good lesson.

  27. 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.

  28. 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.

  29. The mode by which it is contemplated to deprive them of that custody is the process of replevin and that of capias in withernam, in the nature of a distress from the State tribunals organized by the ordinance.

  30. Against such a force as the sheriff may, and which by the replevin law of South Carolina it is his duty to exercise, it can not be expected that a collector can retain his custody with the aid of the inspectors.

  31. Even in that case, however, the process of replevin from the courts of the State would be irregular and unauthorized.

  32. He had prepared writs of replevin and warrants for larceny for Wooldridge and officers who were with him.

  33. This trio left the office instructed by the constable to hasten to the magistrate in the next township who had issued the replevin writ, and secure a broader document for possession of the premises.

  34. They came with a replevin writ, found it of no effect, and have now sent to some renegade justice outside of the township for a writ of possession.


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