REPLEVY meaning: Recovery of wrongfully taken property

We found 20 dictionaries that define the word replevy:

General (15 matching dictionaries)

replevy: Merriam-Webster
replevy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
replevy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
replevy: Collins English Dictionary
replevy: Wordnik
replevy: Wiktionary
replevy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
replevy: Infoplease Dictionary
replevy: Dictionary.com
Replevy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
replevy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
Replevy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
replevy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
replevy: FreeDictionary.org
replevy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)

replevy: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
replevy: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
replevy: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (replevy)

▸ verb:  To return goods to their rightful owner by replevin; to recover goods.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, British, law) To bail.
▸ noun:  replevin

Similar:

repossess, result, repledge, repeat, rejoin, remand, distress, rent, release, retain, more...

Opposite:

seize, confiscate, forfeit, impound

Types:

replevin, replevyment, more...

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