Replevin, in English law, is a form of action by which goods which have been seized under a distress are taken back (security being given to the amount for which the goods were distrained), and the action of replevin commenced, to try the legality of the seizure.
Replevin
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 649
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