- The act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after
arrest; reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife, or
children, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and
who wrongfully detains them.
- 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. - The writ by which goods and chattels are replevied. - To replevy.
- Swindle - Swindle involves switching dead fur - Trick - To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a
deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by
embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a
creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld.
- To take or get back, by a writ for that purpose (goods
and chattels wrongfully taken or detained), upon giving security to try
the right to them in a suit at law, and, if that should be determined
against the plaintiff, to return the property replevied. - To bail. - Replevin.