Replevin
idea · 2 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Action of Replevin · action of Replevin · replevin
in the texts
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The English legal remedy by which distrained cattle are restored pending trial of the right to distrain.
’ The action of Replevin is in fact an excellent illustration of the difference between ancient and modern juridical principles.
They seem to be quite unmistakeable in that portion of our own English law which is concerned with the power of Distraint or Distress and with the connected legal remedy known as Replevin.
In either of these cases the cattle-owner (at least at the time of which we are speaking) might either apply to the King’s Chancery for a writ commanding the Sheriff to ‘make replevin,’ or he might verbally complain himself to the Sheriff, who would then proceed at once to ‘replevy.
The Law of Torts
A special common-law remedy, once frequent and important, for the recovery of wrongfully detained goods.
to this must be added, in special, but once frequent and important cases, replevin.